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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  ," depending on whether a person is eating (essen) or an animal is eating ... you know. But it's a busy week in my life, between classes, choir ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  Since I just finished a 5.60 problem set, my brain is approximately ... the brightest white legs, and that's me. Hey, I work in a lab all summer ... to work hard. Well, happy and stressed. I think this is a pretty common

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... in a team with greg, a junior in mechanical engineering, who has pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even ... itself. In my mind, the possibility of “developing a new vision’ in this way could be severely hampered if one is constantly in the act of doing

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  the final steps in the long journey that is the medical school ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... may know, asking an MIT student what they’re majoring in may result in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  a house for sale. It was October and we were still living in an ... . The program is hosting “Deliver,” a hands-on, interactive activity that ... . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  - couldn't be a better location. Also the fact that Boston is such a young ... , have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... " and it's a wee bit difficult. Difficult in that since Friday morning at 7 I've been studying pretty much non-stop. The final is on Monday

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... in some simple way (for instance, linearly). Say that the car is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... applications a year. The applications where the student is being genuine, where ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... -Entry Thanksgiving Dinner A new tradition we started in A-entry this year. Each person was asked to bring a dish and we all got together to eat. A-entry is

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... , so you're looking at how it's changed over each cut. There's a trick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  class I have to go to. When a friend was sleeping over, it started in the ... knowing me, I'll find other things to do. New York is a big city, right? I ... in college though, when there's a huge event in the beginning of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  calculating last year that if I got an A in every one of my six classes this ... the tenths place)! But if I got a B in any one of them it would stay the ... would (theoretically) just let me skip the harder problem sets once in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  cream. We took a tour of the ice cream factory + got free ice cream ... intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in nearly a year. Things perked up slightly when I walked into my Delta

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon ... have a sense of what direction you want to go in, but don't let that wall

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to ... didn't spend much time listening to music, she listened to a diverse

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024