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• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  above by swinging her hard wooden mallet in a circle, croquet is a vicious ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... sense of where every single piece of equipment in our lab is located

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  , he has a lot of flexibility in his hours since all he needs is his ... the treat! In his free time (yes he has free time, who would have ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  also play a tremendous role in creating, encouraging, and preserving the ... a college professor is, I think, something along the lines of an ... 's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  I feel like doing is sitting back for a bit and letting it soak in. I ... Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  she once left a cupcake in a bio lounge, and later witnessed Eric Lander ... only a beer keg with one in which you are compelled to eat far too much free food freshly grilled by students who are probably thinking about

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to ... the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... class and isn't as engaging as i expected, so lecture is just a 2-hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  's endeavor. "A lot of kids in middle school think, oh, high school is going to ... underclassmen wanting to apply at a top university is to get involved in high ... site. Melina is the first in her family to go to a four-year college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  , but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a ... incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  through layers of abstraction is a frolic in playgrounds of tedium. Which is ... -acclaimed street photographer in the meantime. The first step to a Pulitzer is to set ... inflection, perhaps in a context that makes absolutely no sense. Like: “Yo, it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  Knightley), who's in possession of a valuable coin that is linked to a curse ... become a veterinarian later on in life. But since vet school is expensive ... ) arrives at Port Royal in the Caribbean without a ship or crew. His timing is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  assumption in pushing is that a force applied in some direction will result in ... there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  choreographers. In December, we perform at DT shows, which is a blast (looking at ... is in a few weeks (2/14 and 2/15), so we haven’t gotten over that ... , the choreographers who are in charge of each set have a day of giving a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  Speeches, etc) - but also feel free to stray a little bit. The point is to ... , papers, C-Show dance practices (more about C-Show in a later entry), random ... -matched with this Sunday at a short training session, and in just a week, we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  .01 (Physics) lecture isn’t really a lecture, since the class is taught in a TEAL ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high ... the last pset got assigned, I legitimately could not start to answer a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who ... application itself. I know someone who's an MIT alum and is in the area. Is it ... teacher to note the situation in his response/letter. Overall, this is not a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... used a tiny canvas instead of the ones included in the grant. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... there was was state interest. It did a big part in helping to unite the ... 's license is really all that tells us apart nowadays. Consider this a trial

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 ... MIT, is a mechanical engineering major, and her blog from her time in ... shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  factor, in which case a meal plan is not advisable, see appendix). At MIT ... freshman year. This post is based on personal experience. A freshman plan ... easiest option is cooking co-ops. You can start or join a cooking co-op in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017