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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and ... may understand the next question and not feel dumb. Unfortunately ... into one week, and again, just like any other place, there isn't a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this ... classes like 2.004 and 2.14 (controls) and 2.671 (experimentation). Luckily ... generator, and an oscilloscope. In other words, there's a high concentration

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  sufficiently show who you are. I hope this is helpful and answers lots of ... -page Music Resume attached in pdf format; and 3) one letter of recommendation ... , please be sure to include your name, date of birth, your instrument, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... ", and if someone really presses, even a little bit "New York". Well, as an

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  college is trying new things, exposing yourself to new people , and exposing ... beginning of my MIT career, I spent a lot of my time humbling myself and ... younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on certain nights, and just generally not getting enough sleep. Also, the ... more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  house and suck them out of you. No, really. I fully acknowledge that it ... your questions (which I have copied below) and learn some new things as ... curriculum. I went to a math and science Magnet program, so I came into MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , and commenters are an even bigger part than others. Here's a brief ... Tube and MySpace and Facebook and even Wikipedia. And straying a little ... . And speaking of Weird Al- even our music is being influenced by this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret agents before my sister and I were born, and now they're just picking their

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  .302: Transport Processes homework. I have a busload to do this weekend and I ... Sutherland and write a real-time blog entry. 10:04 -- Okay, Michael '08 just ... movies from our dorm collection for free), and although he's a trustworthy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my wondering eyes did appear but... snow?! I kid you not. It was snowing. And ... , since it is still October, and the snow was pretty wet. What is weird is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... , ooh, I'm super-tired right now, yeah? Not gonna lie." And when I'm super ... back tomorrow and read about homemade gnocchi in butter-thyme sauce and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  face, he truly cares about movies, and I usually agree with his reviews ... ever! Alan Rickman!) and Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell always deserves ... ", and not just because of the whole Tom Cruise/Oprah thing. Rather, he was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... .2050 – design verification, software-defined radio, and anything else that Joe Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  ."]MIT Confessions[/annotation] or my behavior when I'm irritable and you've happened ... head up and down to find some table to sit at, I found myself thinking ... here." And I stood there for a minute, laughing to myself a little

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  Alan and I have been taking a class together this semester: 21W.740: Writing Autobiography and Biography. I really thought I would enjoy the ... is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  : up/down, left/right, and forwards/back. The number of these directions ... areas of study in math, in particular single-variable and multivariable ... independent of our [annotation note="i.e. the notion of time and space"] "space

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... impression that I had already seen the museum and it wasn't that great. It was ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... flexible highlighting, font colors, etc.) and structure which didn't match

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020