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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... disconcerting in its unfamiliarity. Upon closer introspection, I concluded, with ... spending a leisurely afternoon in the humanities library. As I was leaving, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  and can be arrested and legally tried in court as an adult.” Whoopee! I ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  . And since I can't really pick which one I most want to tell you about, I ... headquarters was located, and started pitching in. For about the next 48 hours, I ... mentioned in previous entries, my UROP is in the Langer Lab, where I've been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  the email itself. I can't say I've written many good ones in my time ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... -standing tradition. It's so deeply ingrained in our floor history that when I visited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  ; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory ... published in The Tech," and that's one that I just never thought would happen ... 're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  /Cog) student, I can definitely say I don't feel lonely in either department ... (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First: !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days! I honestly cannot believe it's been nearly two years

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... always says, "Oh, call me Terry!" I can't!! Even at my interview with ... some commenters, I will have some integration bee sample problems up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and ... with a healthy helping of pasta, a sadly bimodal fruit salad (in which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me ... in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  As an alum, people often ask me what I liked the most about being at MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for admission to MIT this year, the most in our history, and the first time the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  happened next was inspiring.  I've always thought that you can tell a lot ... Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened.  In a few

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  his personal spiritual encounter?" and "As a scientist, how can I ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this ... reading. In general, though, I'm a big fan of fantasy, however cheesy and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  it before, here, and I'll probably blog about it again sometime in the ... Plushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple ... toys. ElectroPlushies can be seen floating around in the air. Using my

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my first week here. People are in general really nice and the food, so far

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  adaptation in general is dark, cynical and hopeless. I think the only way to ... ’m in love with her based on what I’ve gathered from her physical appearance. No really, I’m legit in love with her. Rosalind? Who’s Rosalind

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  [/caption] I'm falling behind in this fall semester, and running hard to try and ... carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week. But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  with other peoples' Brass Rats. ("Wait, Alice, can I try on your ring? I ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on ... in designing the class ring (and plan Ring Delivery, but first things

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010