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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  , four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on ... devised a new cheer that we want to do with the crowd and cheerleaders. We're going to try to premiere it at this week's men's ice hockey game and, if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off ... conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn ... hand and Fire Viper on the right hand--it's way better than a Fireball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and ... :30 PM and gets into Boston at 6 AM. Come on, that's just evil.) but I ... Adam and me up to their family's condo at Sunday River in Maine (because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks ... include great textbooks for gifted math students, an active and interactive forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  When you have a 2.5-year-old and a 3-month-old, anything after 6AM is ... , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... info session the night before and it was so amazing that they didn't need

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  . "Your interview gives us a vivid sense of you as a person and how you ... Educational Counselor's (EC) name and contact information via your MyMIT account. Please note that there may be times when there is no EC in your area and we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... rain cloud above my head (see my life as a cloud) and bring horrible ... cold and windy, mostly cloudy, with scattered showers. Luckily, Yunjie

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

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... , and we're proud of to be a little offbeat. Around here, "nerd" isn't an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read ... read." Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince would soon be released. I

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of ... importance because you might just pay attention to the little things and get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... album that I started really listening to and liking last summer. It is still my favorite album and I stand by the claim that it has no skippable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  -5 classes"]72 units,[/annotation] since one class was a 3-unit and one was a 9-unit. I learned many things, consumed many coffees, and saw dawn too many times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  why I took both a comic book writing class and this class. I've always ... and why campus should be open. That's kind of a spicy opinion, so we're going to move forward from that blog and instead focus on my third

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  " and the responses I get are usually somewhat bland. "Everyone wasted a ... , Call me and I’ll tell you a joke Oh shit... Should I be joking at a time like this? I was only really able to process everything and anything

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  'm going to do the best that I've ever done at this school, and I'm super ... three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and ... the Course 6 foundation and header classes! This basically means that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your passport.  I only talked about travel-related and international

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... of summer. You have to answer a few short questions and write three ... back and re-read the sample posts that I applied with a couple of times

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  through, I felt like I was drowning.And hardly anyone knew. -- Way ... more day, and she said yes. So I flew home on the 23rd. On the flight, I ... about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to ... takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The ... no space to breathe—no space to post. And yes, there has been time for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022