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• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  CONTESSA blog entry to me. I know how much that entry must mean to him, judging by how many times I heard that "good neighbor policy" story. However, this entry is dedicated to Sam, who neglected to mention that HE is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the ... it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of my freshman year. How do I feel about freshman year being over? A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Action is simply a reflection of this. Snively I mentioned in this entry ... Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  :  70% of the world's fresh water is used for agriculture. Almost a ... much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents. Land Use:  About ... , except the goal is to avoid any meat products before dinnertime. A bit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  developing countries around a third of produce in the usa is thrown out ... alcohol sensor, and then we discussed how a similar device could be designed to produce cheap ethylene sensors and how an mit nano startup is using

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  emailed back saying that it is "mature and thoughtful... I wouldn't change a ... sophomore year, when I was taking a lot of classes but didn't get much sleep ... . Mike asked how much time I spend on homework each week, and if it would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home ... this under construction building that's way down the river. This is a picture I took with my phone of a film print, so a lot of the quality is

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  .022 Physics II pset, which was due yesterday. On the right is a scale for ... : Reading and Writing Autobiography. Most of the stack is a bunch of reading ... , for example, is How to Phone Your Old Man. The other readings for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... people, and never showering. This is definitely not the case - as a matter ... volunteers running around teaching people how to save a life. The Fray couldn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most ... much closer than they would be at a traditional restaurant, where each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  like trying to remember what a Star Thru is after doing a California ... our first meeting, Professor Andrew Lo gave a talk about how financial ... how I went to a estimathon hosted by Traders at MIT, and had fun arguing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  number of classes i can take while maintaining full-time status, which is a ... year it's about ramsey theory, which is kinda like the study of "how big ... either acquaintances or strangers. how many people do we need in a room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  conservative, simple choice is usually better. the central ramen (shoyu) is a good idea. the broth is slightly clear and has a coat of oil on top. i ... the soup, and leave no longer than a half hour after i sat down. is it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i wrote a really long post, which is now my longest post on the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  is a hamentashen with too much filling. Another is one with too many ... scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the ... it standing right there at the shelf for two hours. Fun Home is a ... whether a piece of writing is beautiful or not) is derived from that first

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I think this is a really fun alternative way to spend IAP! (and Reason ... . The Japanese cell phone is a fusion between a high-def digital camera, a ... ) = a couple of steps? 13. Sorry for mentioning the subway so much - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  much about the school as possible, how having a constantly changing website is interesting and raises the number of applicants, and how Web 2 ... FAFSA has a mascot and I met it. It's strange though, we wondered how

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is ... store Adam's planes. This one, in A Entry, is more a place to eat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006