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• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  point. Dorms. For my FPOP and most of REX, I was living in East Campus ... summer resident hadn't moved out of room yet, so I was placed in a room ... now that I'm here, I can verify. They are, in fact, different. I could

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this ... of millions people stand in my way. I'm just scared of giving up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is ... keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So accordingly, I do have an MIT alert. About a month ago, I was chilling in my

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  came back, I slept from 3:30 PM tp 8:30 PM. That's 9 whole hours of sleep ... take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

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

  

  -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I ... numerous other areas of study, I'm interested in the worm's relationship with

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

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't promise you an amusing survey, I can provide you an account of WHY we are ... where I would be now. And in one short year (come to think of it, I only

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... least I didn't make any egregious spelling errors like I do in all of ... Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle ... Gregor rooms' size. I consider MacGregor as my first choice in housing lottery ... asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  MIT so far. I know the future only has a lot more of these in store, but ... the best people I've ever met. I'm constantly in awe of how amazing ... .S.: I was told to make a Day in the Life of an MIT Student video to revive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  eventually it wore me down. In one of my first nights in San Francisco, I ... episode in the fall of my senior year. I wailed like she did, and though we ... seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 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't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren ... potential. I can't imagine that kind of one-on-one attention being too common ... amount of sleep you need (or in some cases, the amount of caffeine you can

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  all my futures. i can see so many of them, blooming in different ... leaving? the future versions of lives i can live will not merge into a ... possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... are some funny stories in there.) One of the 3 million reasons I love ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... : Somewhere in the haze of fluid time trickling around Saturday night, I caved ... selection of some deeply profound queries that I implored: aliens in disguise

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  , when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the ... torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect. I imagine it as the equivalent of a southern hill-billy drawl ... night it rained in earnest. The unmistakable rustle of trees. I snuck out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007