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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…

  

  internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... in these things. RATP headquarters (Maison de la RATP/House of RATP

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  at pool edge and contemplate reflection in water. Wondered why awake again, since no class until 12. 10:01 AM: Dive in. Am definitely awake ... class so big that people sit in the aisles.. of 10-250 (note: chairs in 10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... LSC (MIT's student-run 'movie theater' in one of the big lecture halls ... both classes in my senior year of high school and let's just say that my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Laverde's Market, nestled in the MIT student center ... sullen students recognize each other in line at La Verde's. Tiredly, the ... weird transition out of high school, actually. In my high school, among

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14 ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... ." To summarize: one day in June 2004 I was knocked off my bike by a car

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... ), or, in our case, a living group (Conner 2!). Now, I've played three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  activities and especially in-house rush (when Macgregor freshmen pick entries ... , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  since I started this awful, misguided experiment in temporary ... picnic in Boston Common. Last year, the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company ... closely in 21L.009 Shakespeare my Freshman year, so I was I excited to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  together in the TV Lounge, drink tea and eat snacks, and talk about stuff ... essays, splaying my life story to strangers in interviews, and thinking about abstract concepts like "fit" and "where I really want to go". In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines ... . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... on anonymous MIT Confessions. 1. A summer discovery In my freshman year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... pasty white or what???) Another one of the very first things we did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  .  To check your decision on the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will ... to log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  deep in your bones. You don't choose the Suit. The Suit chooses you. 2 ... around since you're quite literally flying blind in there. This took me ... Transform. 5. Put ice packs in vest and head pockets, turn the head fan on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  another 64 partially completed, which might be an alltime record. In early ... -esque summer subsisting on mostly gummy worms in Taipei Cami M. ’23 of ... MegTheeStallion in MLA formant and who might (possibly) be baby You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  In my last post (which was way too long ago 😖), but I guess I should ... :^) Programming is also kicking my butt :^) In conclusion: my butt is being kicked ... my moods. 90% of my stress from earlier in the quarter (and last

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019