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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live ... cook almost all of their meals there. I'm not very cooking-inclined, nor ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  from this joke paper. If you stare at a given piece of Chicken code for ... Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... , I lived in a house at the end of a road, and the back yard dropped off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  tough at times, and I'm going to have to take a bunch of technicals next ... halfway point of MIT. When I look back at the path I've taken, it looks ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the ... two of us started working very intently. At 5:47, I ran the test jig ... of IHTFP, and ILTFP (the sentiment, not the student activist group), at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... -- my urop at the broad institute is also a lot of work, something my ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• 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 ... ’s campus—and gave me the idea of illustrating the support found at MIT during ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  the spirit of introduction, here are some Things I Know to Be True at ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  recommendation through this system, or fax a copy of their letter to us at 1 ... (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... might go sit for awhile at Sean's memorial and just think. Maybe a bit of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  abstractions of human proportion and movement. At times, it was frustrating. At ... : "Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it was the ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  just a few of the press articles at http://news.google.com ... the future of coal research at MIT, because Professor McRae is kind of a ... DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday ... at the annual Steer Roast in 1990), it has quite a list of bands that ... has hosted some of the biggest bands ever, including the Grateful Dead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  inside, I really would not have picked a different major at MIT. I am SO ... this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two ... to be erected on the lawn of the Endicott House - MIT's private mansion

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with ... of MIT's best fifth-year mathematics graduate student integralists. So ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up, thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005