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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  upwards, almost pulling the plastic part off the metal (it is a U-Lock, even though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A few people walk by and I wonder vaguely how much it looks like I am

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  salt. Nevertheless, this post is a big step in the right direction, and ... burning in your mind right now – what exactly is hardness? Merriam ... ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans ... can be very much limited by how much the lab has. A lot of my friends

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... is a seminar-style course on ethics in literature. It’s co-taught by my ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  cooker, and press a button. This is so much easier than pan-frying where ... ’s especially great for busy college students because it is a relatively hands-free ... " align="aligncenter" width="256"] Here she is in all her glory

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... , so it's just a reminder of how close rush is. it's exciting, of course ... after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  : 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... this is speaking from personal experience, I think living in a fraternity is on par if not a little less expensive than living in a dorm

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  how stressful a semester of classes really was. Being submerged in work ... ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... ’t know. You should ask one. I hear they’re very friendly. The truth is, a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University ... Scholar Programs offer a diverse range of classes in visual arts, sports

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free ... admissions blogger meeting, which primarily consists of a discussion about how ... professor friends talks about how they’ve been working to improve diversity in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... dorm, Simmons Hall. Well, how could you not love Simmons?! They have a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  summarize it in a manner that is "understandable to everyone." Anyway, all ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  tuned in to her feelings, while he is a kid who frequently feels angsty or ... : Apocalypse came in the form of a deadly pandemic, and now the world is reduced ... Dreams, and his encounters with people in the waking world. It is a wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  is how I learned that Matt McGann has a giant log in his room for ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  stop you and interject that it is in fact a “fork with spoon ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  . They gave a conference talk in England about how my wing played a silly ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018