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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not ... entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me ... never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to ... like five or six, but my suite is somewhat of an architectural anomaly

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... education at MIT. I'm smart, okay, but I'm not, and never have been, one of ... pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one back. I assume that most of you have taken the SATs and that you studied ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a Nazi prison camp, and was premiered to 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and ... last time. Anonymous: "Sam, would you kindly post a piece of your music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... to be above average. So one of the most important things you'll learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there is a transcript of his Nobel lecture in Oslo here (sadly, a PDF file

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw ... position, typing this out. i just made a bunch of heart-shaped cookies with chris and tiramisu for a hall birthday. it's the first day of the long

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  in late february of 2017 me and jessica t. '20 did a hall exchange. a ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the ... , but as one of the handful of inaugural TIMtalks speakers, I got a unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year. It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... school had a lot more of a fear of God in them -- both metaphorical and ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... ! Audrey: Yeah! So this will be Arcturus’ second year of competition. Last ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022