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• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ), and more effective business models for transactions of goods ... ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  Voyage of the Dawn Treader in my reading textbook in elementary school and ... dropped out of high school and earned a GED at 17. So I'm a first ... department/school, at Medical, at Student Support Services, and so on. Lack of

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever, elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the ... like this: Some version of calculus Some version of physics Some version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  's last terms are comparatively lighter, with lots of time to focus on all sorts of projects. I, for better and worse, am not most people. My term is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  desk. When I'm not busy dropping and shattering flasks full of buffers I ... Any time I have disappeared off the face of the earth - or just from the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning ... DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  " and a high school bully's demonstration of the Pauli Exclusion Principle ... taste of Coca-Cola Classic, I fear that generations of high school ... of Boston Celtics tickets, about my most memorable moments of learning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  we had more important business to attend to. A chorus of "Kuwait ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken costume. Most frequently used line of the evening: "If you or anybody you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  of high school I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know if I ... chemistry in high school.~ I was young and naive and blissfully ignorant of 5.12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  school lets out; usually the first really hot week of summer is the second week of June or so, and by that time school's already long done for the ... at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  all the schools withstanding rounds and rounds of forms and sparring ... half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT ... '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT-related updating now that I'm back on campus--I've been busy running errands with Sam ... unpacking. Instead, it just makes me want to get out of my room as much as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized ... year, where as a part of my school's math club, I judged the pi ... In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021