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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  've had a harsh life. Why complain? I can afford the luxury of reattaching ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... cetera. In the past 30 hours, I have: made my bed, eaten two grapefruit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  write. You can read the first essay in the book, "Time and Distance ... in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I ... I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  . And the gigantic flamethrower I ordered was stuck in Beijing. "I've gotta beat them somehow," I said, in an impromptu dramatic monologue ... . David plugged in his axe, amp, and mic, cranking up every dial. I put on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  in..." series (I do recommend these though!), but I did use their ... 's MCAT Organic Chemistry review; in many ways, I found the PR version of ... by taking a practice test, then slowly hone in on the topics I really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... only 1-2. Harvard ended last season ranked 17th in D1, so I was really ... ="102711" image4="102714" /] 4. Boston :) I am so so so happy to be back in Boston

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I ... ="aligncenter" width="550"] yeah i mean why not[/caption] If we can build roller

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it ... variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Massachusetts to Malaysia and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome ... available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <   You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non-fiction books that I read was Studs Terkel's "Working" (which was subtitled ... years, Terkel's Working still holds up, it's a great read. I suspect in

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  that in mind, I would like to impart some advice regarding the ... about the people in my life. I couldn’t have arrived here without them ... challenge. Yes, I’ve had plenty of fun in high school, but when I picked a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... in the scene are reflective) and keeping track of where they intersect ... , a D&D group in Next House, and I wrote about Singing for Service

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry ... this year's competition in Paris, or I think more realistically in my ... design engineer. I'll try to keep you all in the loop as the semester goes

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my ... . MIT "hacking war". I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two ... A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In or Out?

  

  Out. I'm pretty disappointed, but hey, it could be worse. So it goes.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  ! See if you can find them in the archives!) Mikey, as you can see from ... and such. Then she asked me what my plans were for the break. "Work," I ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  I don’t understand This was weird.

  

  I saw this today while walking back to the dorm. Can anybody enlighten me?

  • by Snively '11
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  of the group -- because after all, if I can open someone else's eyes to ... day jobs. This summer, as in January, I've perched myself atop the flat ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ?" in a few minutes. I had never heard of Fink, so I skimmed through the ... inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019