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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  your driver's permit. Me: I don't know what a car is. I walked away from ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to ... nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  paper isn’t really about cognitive augmentation as much as a general ... ; then they imagine a room where the scary version of the nightmare is on ... . this is a cute project which doesn’t really perform cognitive

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  . At the time, this was considered a "radical experiment" that faced much ... advertising a guest lecture entitled "What is a gene?" I thought that was a stupid question, because I know what a gene is. It's a piece of DNA that is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... feed ingredients, what is the best way of making a reactor for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... Semyon is teaching it and he's a very kind little man who dances at the end ... wanted to take a language this fall and I really think Spanish is the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... much. How things have changed... Given that it was the 50th anniversary ... . We also asked about budgeting and how much we'd need for the drinks and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... prototyping of a pin table, which is exactly what it sounds like, a table or board with a whole bunch of pins sticking out of the top. The idea is used

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how the admissions ... Hi all, The office is closed for the holiday and there are only a ... recommended, the interview is not a required part of the application (and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how the admissions ... recommended, the interview is not a required part of the application (and ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  's offered his office hours as a consolation, but I don't know how much I will ... (which are already in conflict with each other), its once a week lab is ... is a barren wasteland. And I have nothing before 1pm on Thursday or

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  exactly is Genshin? / How do you play Genshin? I’m glad you asked! Genshin ... person in the picture is Albedo, who’s an alchemist. I don’t have a lot of ... favourite character. In my defense, he is beautiful. So how do you play

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  surviving in a car. It's lovely to recall how much of myself I poured in to ... and the other is bedecked with necklaces. I had wondered how a small ... , subtly, as I grew older, and also how much of it is the same. But that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is ... I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  , shape, form, or box in my life, but I was more than willing to make a game ... . Nutmeg is an excellent team player, but not a stand-alone star. To put this ... a 1-mile radius of my room which is significant since it’s snowy and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  Lectures MIT is a hard school, and the lectures aren't always that ... to go, I know this is a little bit of an ego issue for me, so I'm going ... release how I managed to do this because it is so embarrassing to my core

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  whose name I can't remember say, "is the perfect example of when too much ... note a few things. The first is that even though I have yet to meet ... of dwelling on how much you hate or can't do something. The THIRD (and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  ." This is true; the registrar provides state-by-state data on how many ... :) Harry: In a way, everything I am doing now is South-Dakota-related as I am ... car. But in a lot of ways, not much changed. It’s just another place to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even if it comes from a box or consists only of taco meat and cheddar cheese ... for a whole day. Breakfast: I love Frosted Flakes. Really I do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005