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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... way and had a bonding experience that can't be quantified in lecture ... , so I just stopped going. If you can make it work, you aren't obligated

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  TIM THE BEAVER. He happened to be in Stata the day I was carrying Flat ... waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan ... : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for you. =P Now that I've actually been to classes, I can share them ... .600: Things (i.e. students) act like trees that die in the winter and ... Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... 150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... this was just about two years ago, but yeah, apparently I can say that ... The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  something engraved at danger!awesome is insanely simple. I walked in and told ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... blogging brownie to whomever in the comments can come up with the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight ... one class. Otherwise I’d throw in 6.002/6.007, 6.152, 6.828, and 6 ... (a skill which i foolishly thought I possessed in great abundance prior

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago ... ”, which I vehemently disagreed with: In high school, ESFJs are the ... butter... Ask anyone I know, especially in high school, and this is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel   In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... '15 is in Au Bon Pain right as I'm walking outside from my interview ... other since freshman year and talk about getting old.  I can't exactly

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to ... who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... series by Orson Scott Card.  Unlike many of the MIT students that I know, I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  sign-offs, regardless of the context. I think you can't go wrong with ... , These are in-jokes which I would take too long for me to explain to you ... has a contest to see who can avoid hearing Mariah Carey's "All I Want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Commons has a cute little pond in the middle which you can ice skate on ...  which creates these massive mechanical/robotic machines which can be used in ... ?!? 8. Lastly, taking in the beauty of Boston On one of my many runs, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my ... myself instead." You can see where this is going. Especially because I ... Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... that I admitted to the Class of 2006. In the fall of 2001 - Thanksgiving weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006