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• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for ... TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the ... also frantically looked for stuff to do) that said, "Keep Calm and if All Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and ... , Ohio for the first day of freshman orientation in fall 2002, but I’ll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to ... , "Comparison of Heat to Work Conversion in First Order and Second Order Magnets ... students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... 's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an impromptu event you didn't have to register for. The dark matter lecture I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... looked forward to about finishing high school. But with classic Asian

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  , notice: First and foremost, my super-fabulous high-heeled rainboots. I ... been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... through the rain parallel to an indoor hallway I could have used to keep

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  's a demo: You have to first break out the "seed". Which is this ... Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... √©mon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  rain thing down. The first thing I’ve discovered is that umbrella’s don ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... to splash those walking besides me). I’m not quite sure how guys do it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... composition?" "If you want to call it that, man, I'm just blowing!" When he

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on ... ... Hmm I don't know when I was actually planning to hand it in... June 4th

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  that instead of being so proud to be the first person to comment, you ... bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there ... very simplified nutshell, the LHC seeks to reproduce scenarios similar to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... to blog. I moved to Burton-Conner this year, which, much like East Campus, has very different floor cultures, so I'm very happy to say that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  related to what I'm writing about. That particular one comes from Gilbert K. Chesterton. In any case, the entire point of that little tangent was to get on ... I would have a problem if Snively managed to get more posts up than me

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  text for the first time to look up some fugacity equilibrium relations ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006