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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... stretch for me to have gotten to the American Civil War from there. I grew ... have crippled the North. Needless to say, I didn't buy that at all. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  to offer and I understand that. As my fellow freshmen and I prepare for ... ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  blogiversary to all of us. Thanks to the '09s for being our guinea pigs; and a ... 't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  company had a project ready for me to start work on the second I stepped in ... a mentor for every single intern to ease the transition into this new ... who have been studying this stuff for years, so I had a lot to catch up

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do with linguistics, but I suppose MIT does offer a club for ... in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even more things that you want to do (and learn!), and seemingly not enough

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... decides to grab a healthy patient who shows up for a checkup. He takes the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  Italy) and enjoy the smells so I had to settle for going to Bunker Hill. I ... bridges going across the river but none of them seemed to have sidewalks for me to skate on. I tried going left, skating for a while to see if there

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  . Manalis, I know you probably didn't mean for it to be so mean. He and Prof ... Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... may be entitled to financial compensation in the form of “me buying a ... . [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  easy for me to go into lab and spend all of my time there to run away ... between steps. i still have a lot to do. i have papers for a discussion ... being in the area for four whole years??? but i'm excited to have a reason

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  ’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center ... -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... the library. Oxford makes you adhere to a dress code for exams

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  machine for 6.01 next to a disassembled puzzle.      One floor down is ... For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  in 3 flat to find something to wear for school. Exhibit A: This ... over the other proves to be a mind-clearing activity. So while stuffing clothes into the drawer this week, I realized that since I've come to MIT, I

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on ... usually like to make something more complicated for potlucks, but I was ... pretty similar to a Bolognese sauce for pasta, except a little spicier. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . Mmmm chocolate. PooF To GO TO (Points for the Good of the Order) When it ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... for the bad wiring. I have never worked with a breadboard prior to this ... 're looking to see if 6-2/6-3 is for you. 4. I'm making an effort to be more

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that I’m going to make an impact tomorrow. For my fellow course 2’s, we ... solve, and we look to each other, other people, when we search for ... complex problems to ever exist.   For some of us, that may mean health

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a ... for summer research programs my GPA is too low for me to be accepted ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another ... just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show ...  Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013