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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... of Science off in the distance. When I first got this blog, and was ... made me think of the song in the first place when I was brainstorming

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  half of last week, I basically lived in Libraries and Study Rooms for the majority of my evenings. I had a big paper due in 17.40* last Tuesday, so I ... library, and that's why I chose to do the majority of my work in them

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  of the prettiest I've ever seen. we spent a while being idiots in the ... my ears could handle it, I saw a bunch of people buy earplugs so they ... 's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a ... week of orientation, I had to get out my cell phone all the time to give

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  I never thought of writing in public, only one integrator remains. He ... towards sleep at -9.81 m/s^2. In 12 hours, I will be in class. For now, I ... that only uses about a third of the letters in the alphabet (x, u, c, o

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing ... whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... .E.M.E. degree. i have enough sayings that you can make a soundboard of me and no

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  city, and a lot of it is made out of concrete. This does not mean you can ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you visit. All in good fun, of course. :) Step one of the "don't look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like ... this club? Why am I doing… any of this??? tick I can’t get peace here. I ... of what we were taught. While I see the value in challenging students

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... winding through the city which connects many of the historical sites for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a ... , the more the very notion of “real work” became confused. In clubs I ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... , where I’ve had some of my greatest successes in academic competition and ... me in the company of great friends. I had to choose some of my very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media ... strange. It's wonderful. It's hard. It took the shape of what I expected and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... the end of the semester, I found myself doing more in a way that didn

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... only did I learn to live alone in all the practical senses of the word ... experiences – in the positive sense of that word. I wish all of you a happy

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel ... , $30 of which went toward buying me this awesome ticket specifically so I ... perspiration." I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be in the presence of this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  same city in the same house in Los Angeles for all of my 18 years. Life ... of people that I love more than anyone else. In the back of my mind, I ... most of < 8 hours of sleep. More significantly, I think I was in a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  it out :'). wait are you in [annotation note="dynamics and control I"]2 ... " and "easy easy" instead of the solution Audrey: ok i'm going to ... frames we have to color the more pans of pastels we can con from them

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  [] and a little art? If the hints aren't helping, I guess I can give you ... prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... letting people ride it around their neighborhoods in the coming months; I

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  is iridescent, right? You can see streaks of all different colors in it ... , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is ... chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... inevitable cry of "April Fools!" That's dedication to teaching. But then I got ... Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006