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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  . Ambrose Bierce published The Devil’s Dictionary in 1906, a book filled with ... they are a Benedict Arnold. Coach K’s last name is pronounced “shih ... Andrews). Like … half of the appeal of a ventriloquist is that the person’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  :1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program ... try to schedule 1:1s starting at this block because I am not very social or functional in the morning. 2-3 PM: Usually more 1:1s and spamming

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... ="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30 ... ., Dominik M., Hansa S., and of course, my lead actress, Kendra C. [embed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  I am vaguely familiar with? s t r e s s. I don’t know where to place

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for ... cousin’s Bar Mitzvah, traveled to Moscow with our family, drew a lot ... adulthood, and it’s okay to take advantage of that. Junior Summer We are doing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  **The idea for this post was originally Abby’s, but she is very hosed ... technically over. Also per my previous post, this doesn’t mean that it’s okay ... family's U.S. based insurance plans, it can be unnecessary to have to pay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  (including me, Karen S., Kris, Stu, Elizabeth, Matt, Mikey), current and former ... and gradient(s) that has long characterized our homepage (and MIT ... .           Mimi S. '22, from Maine, is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  .163 Strobe Project Lab CMS.S60 Crafting Comics DTB2 Digital Toolbox 2 (taken at ... eat dinner by ourselves. And it’s actually not at all scary as freshman ... childhood pictures? or maybe both! Hhhmmmmmm That’s about all the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  graph’s title—in this case, a single word—can affect how people report its ... , memorability refers to the brain’s process of retrieving something from memory ... refers to where people focus when viewing an object; Zoya’s work in this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  enough that’s where I found myself. It was one of the only factors I felt I ... get me a biology textbook and Feynman’s lectures on Physics because they ... hadn’t gone to two different high schools, and that’s why I hope to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  about self-help as a feminine pursuit, or put another way, as “women’s ... attention to the genre’s association with “women,” my intention is to ... not find in this figure? Alternately, the classification as women’s

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  directly into other people’s heads (pay close attention to my use of the word ... not trying to learn swimming all by yourself, it’s a group effort that ... events, etc. etc. (I pronounce this word eh-tuh-kuh not et cetera, it’s

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  Make your way through the most puzzling of MIT’s dorms on the path to ... for any free-ranging dinosaurs... 10:30 PM - 11:59 PM S'mores Stay by the campfire (read: grill) and tell scary stories or take your s

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  one that had originally been a female reformatory in the 1800s, usually ... of here, I actually have a chance to restructure my life. It’s ... agreed. As we headed out, towards Lee’s car, we talked about what we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  report was (I'm proud to say I receive more 5s than 4s, and have never

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  along I-81S past a flurry of state forests. We made a quick stop in ... "HEY, I SAW YOU GUYS EARLIER!"s and the "THAT'S AWESOME!"s. It was kind

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  other end. “Well, I couldn’t quite tell you, because I haven’t heard. That’s ... . By seven o’clock the damage from Mrs. Concord’s bottom had been undone ... every night when we went to bed we would be taking apart their life’s

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  amazing prefrosh’s glass blowing skills, and lots of other undergrads are ... my new friends including Emma S. '16, Anthony P. '16, and Jake I. '16 ... Saturday, and I hope that I can give you a good idea of what it’s like to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... will accept your school's own forms, the NACAC forms, or the Common ... an applicant's admissibility. Copy & paste: If you copy and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  . TransCanada’s proposal for construction of the multi-billion dollar ... enhancing America’s ability to lead in engineering innovative solutions to our ... innovate oil’s replacement technologies. Respectfully, and with great

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011