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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  dad has been a fire captain for as long as I can remember and as such, I ... . Smelling good can make up for a lot of shortcomings, as shallow as this ... a particularly extravagant attempt to remove plastic from my pants I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... engineering and in sloan business school, and a visiting student from germany ... the Data. the Data is a CSV, which stands for Comma Separated Values

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  I've spent the last two weeks enjoying a nice vacation at my mom ... caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , I can afford to make a few mistakes. Still, I’d rather not… so I ... . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... expected. Yesterday I had a 5.112 (Chemistry) exam, and it was the first

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• 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

  

  ’t that a prerequisite for most careers? I also thought that MechE would ... for every day that I have neglected my blog. The short story is that I ... in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email

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

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... about a five minute walk from my house; instead, I went to one further ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  expected it to be, especially when I put it in my room. I tried it out for a ... from a ferocious piranha. The funeral for the fallen soliders of battle ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I ... for 'Our Last Night'-- a post-hardcore band Joey was deeply involved in ... musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop

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

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a ... really grumpy. But I had a movie screening to take care of. I write for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  projects, where we're presented with a fairly real world problem, and we have to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... Vulnerability," a TED talk I had bookmarked on my computer for all of high school ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  itself hacked. Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl More photos can be found here Update (11/19/06; 2:08 PM) The cultural reference for that symbol goes back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  when I auditioned for American Idol or whatever. But now? No. I can't put my head on a pillow for more than about 27 seconds before I completely ... , and I usually only dream when I've been sleeping for a really long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of ... been one of those things where the more I put in, the more I get out

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a shortage of breathable O2, I've never experienced discrimination as a female ... was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r/IAmA ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... , you can ask us anything [annotation note="I know this is the Internet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  but I have to run off to a meeting... I'll add it later if I can ... . ------------------------------------------------------- The Waitlist I've gotten a bunch of correspondence asking about the ... out of storage for CPW.) When I know more, I'll definitely let you know

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  from Facebook. A Dropbox t-shirt. Bright Google sunglasses. You are now a ... is designing a skintight spacesuit akin to the one in the movie. I admit, I wanted to be an engineering major for at least an hour after the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015