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• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... cards and reference sheets; a lot of my upper-division biology classes are open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph." She said, "You ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Birth Of My Third Child The new admissions web site finally launches! Report any bugs here.

  

  middle of a discussion on Topic X when someone jumps in and posts "I got a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  was created by Jason '09, one of MIT's terrific origami artists. Count

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... . I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date ... display this on one of the digital billboards at TD Garden. "More

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... travel abroad (with your expenses paid through various MISTI programs, of ... ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... Tube videos. Monday, we crowded in Stud5 to study. After hours of studying, we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... earthquake in Japan or election signs popping up outside of Kresge. The world consists of problem sets, papers, alarm clocks, and in my case, rowing

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  because of our favorite pyrotechnic holiday, Independence Day. Hasbro, being the awesome company they are, decided to pay all of the interns and ... 'm earning money not just for blogging but also for building toys (only one of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to ... guesswork out of what's in each section by providing drop down menus with ... section of the site. IMAGE #2: Don't worry - if you happen to like

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I ... days during finals week last term and now I'm down to an average of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  , you may be wondering why this is the story of the 5 Wits. Well, there ... 't remember what the 5 wits were. Fantasy, who loved to dream of castles and crowns. Estimation, who was great at estimating the amount of pizza she

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... 's that time of year that meteorologists call winter, characterized by snow ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text ... three major categories to describe consonants: their place of articulation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed ... ." - Professor Eric Lander, Professor of 7.012 (Introductory Biology), Director of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions ... ://web.mit.edu/yourusername. Neither of these methods are foolproof, but they are good first checks ... : underscores (david_h), numbers (david789), unpronounceable terminations of long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009