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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  actually be a good thing, since - as I discovered earlier this week - I'm not that great at working the stretcher when anyone more than, say, 10 pounds ... feet properly! Lift with your legs, not your back! Pull the trigger! Don

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  tomorrow. :P But anyways, stress is not something that's too fun to write ... is not really an amino acid...you know, the acid part was confusing ... : So you know the freshman UROP who works in the room next to you? She

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... . We headed to theater 12, showed our ticket stubs, and walked in. Not ... something. . . but not tonight. I stared at this for a while. Why were there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  living tissue, but Khademhosseini’s work is unique in its “ ... , and it was not until a summer internship in his junior year at college ... that while MIT is not necessarily fun in the conventional sense of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I ... . Not computer systems in particular, but systems in general. I study the ... .170 (Laboratory in Software Engineering) - Death by Java. The computer language, not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have been working very hard, and dealt well with setbacks. There was an ... ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would ... guns, and worked in pairs, with one person yelling "BANG!" The advanced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  may or may not work for you. (I took a couple of online classes and ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... . It's about time I did some work.

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... will be more willing to hire you and there is not a lot of hassle with ... ? -  Can you afford the time away from your coursework? -  Can you work on a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he ... professor he worked with (Daniel Kleitman, a professor in the Math Department ... adamant about not trying to explain his exact project. Boris did, however

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  there (not just from a viewbook or description). After that, you get to ... we're constantly working to keep his memory alive as long as possible. This poster commemorates the time he hooked a working laser up to his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first ... received three degrees from MIT. Again, not too shabby. (Sorry this ... bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for ... texted my friend and told her I might not be able to watch the drama at 10 ... while I work in my room! XD It's called - OWL CITY!!! I have Fireflies and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  ’s super satisfying to fold once you figure out how it works. Five ... visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated ... out of sticky notes. Although not as visually striking or fun to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  work. (Or I'll try my best, and no hard feelings if it doesn't.) vital ... to not really knowing how to make friends (I came from a close knit ... ) did an internship at a policy think tank working on research for

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  an incredible experience, and I will definitely do work while I’m there to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... validation practice set (and our first time working on computer vision

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  really choked up at CPW when I met some students I'd worked with at MITES ... school or work in honor of Veteran's Day, including at MIT. However, I ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  you might not know about working with rats: They're pretty darn smart ... if I could divulge the details. To work with any animals at MIT, you ... two workshops that taught me how to handle and work with rats and mice

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing ... grandmother. And not your cool grandmother who has purple hair and a Harley, but

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  **: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: What’s the name of the organization you’re working with again ... to create a "Think Local First" campaign^^ for this island. I’m working ... : lolol! All great ideas but we’re not there yet (except for the website

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  not being able to take a shower after a long day's work. Now picture ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work ... do not have to walk more than a stone's throw away. Our system also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011