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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... friends. They really contribute a lot to my sanity some days. They really ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define. It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  . Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a click of a mouse button. Many childhoods of anticipation will come to an ... In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Room with a Vieux A comparison of sorts

  

  Note: I freely admit I am stealing the title "A Room with a Vieux" from a lovely antiques store in Boston So here is my workspace (and my ... ." I think honking is a sacred activity and this sort of socially

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship ... questions in science, but it will also be a little scary to give the next 5 to 6 years of my life to answering a question that might just be one

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  -MIT/Boston-specific ("Go to a formal"). I've never understood the attraction of formals ... to make a shorter list of my own, of things to do before you graduate ... . Submit a piece to Voodoo 15. Participate in the annual Voodoo Telethon 16

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see more after a week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a ... humanities, do you really have to learn major numbers” (answers: a zillion

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Per Child, or MIT's Public Service Center - to name just a few - for ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any ... flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... that were born in a six-foot pile of snow, feel free to share your own ... gloves afeefah? Because it’s surprisingly easy to lose them) I have a few

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  outside and it's dark. i need a break. i want to leave. on saturday, i ... boston logan, and join my friends. i take a plane far, far away, to a ... -ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  tennis bubble, Kresge, the Student Center, and more. Not to mention, a ... freshman, immediately came to mind. I think it's a gorgeous shot. And people ... actually thought I was a good enough photographer to take that? It was taken

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... . I was nervous that I messed up (maybe I was required to take a CI

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a ... make things from scratch. During IAP we went on a snow day adventure to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... intending to be a double major in [annotation note="writing!"]Course 21W ... discovered that I actually liked programming a lot and wanted to do more of it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... to that first AP introductory meeting as a scrawny rolling-backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... 's problems, so a desire to improve society, to make the world a better place ... still have to take on a future date. We will have the official data in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... , Dheera needed an innovative way to enter his own room without using a key ... disillusioned to learn the droid was actually animated by a tiny man inside. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should ... finding the relevant sections yourself. To take this as a sign of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008