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• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  an MIT student so i can't really get a glimpse of how life is in MIT ... mentioned that. Also, BC's policy is kind of a policy in name only. If the ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... included in the cost of your tuition is now a $40 extra membership fee for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... , which is a UN organization that deals with sanitation and water issues in ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  expected a wall, now wondered what they were capable of. It was in this ... later I discover it in a box under my bed. I don't remember putting it ... , hitting bumps, gaining momentum, always just a lurch away from breaking free

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is ... mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... lateral epicondylitis?" I won the "funniest answer" prize (a free entree and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  -entropy expressions is that they carry a high cognitive load, which is how much working ... also measures how much information you can process at a time. In short ... (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... . In the end, you get a finished product that is just the way that you ... having so much freedom is sometimes it’s hard to choose: “I really like a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  , living with a host’s dorm community, eating way too much free food, talking ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... competitions in that we only require a proposal, rather than a completed project

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  complaining, but a community nevertheless. In our clique-y self-selected tables ... in the dining. One time, there was a mass exodus when Lamawal found a ... his first month in NTIC, he secured a deal with a security guard. Each

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  about freshman admissions etc. Please keep in mind that MIT is a very ... have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  Aliebn Too: A Book. everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is the ... . Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in ... way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  is a more in-depth critique, which also discusses how Big 5 can be too ... applicable now) is definitely questionable. In Western astrology I am a Pisces ... real issue with Myers-Briggs is how many people in positions of power

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  whacky number scales: sometimes, the class average is a 40%. And you never ... to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the Sheraton Hotel in Times Square and fed us at a $$$$ circus-themed French

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  laundry you’re welcome), in college, this is a necessary skill. Cleaning ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with ... purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  and is around to answer your questions as well, or a seminar, in which ... . REX is a very good thing for people like Keri, who for a brief moment in ... !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... four dimensions to people in a comedy special is exceptional, and I ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  of discrimination I have ever received as a woman in science is that ... other side of the steps was also wet. Yes, he is in fact a rocket ... are not so much. So the answer is yes, GPA matters, but it matters a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an ... behind highway overpasses, cars, random trees - in a phrase: see but can ... , a "skybridge" did. (In retrospect, I should've expected it; a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ="incidentally, admission is free for MIT students"]Museum of Fine Arts[/annotation]with a ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... . [annotation note="in sOuTh dAkOtA"]At home,[/annotation]the snow starts in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020