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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  making me cry.  I wasn't sad, I wasn't in so much pain that I would ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I ... increased my distances until I was ready to run my first half marathon.  In

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  , and I think in the end that’s what would’ve been the strongest factor to ... -enrolling in a class, I did have the chance to take a class (D-Lab: Development ... family-owned businesses and trendy food destinations in general. I mean

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  in the class, as far as I can tell.. Anyway, it was nice talking to ... , during which Christina and I called our parents to congratulate them on ... , and I'd like to congratulate you on your acceptance! That's right! I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... . At the time, I knew that two actions were notably absent from my list of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... fight, my bets would be on Maria. The moral of the story is that I had a ... Sadoway was like, “I'll check around for UROP openings in my group,” and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  him off, he would punch you in the face and split your lips open. Within ... to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some ... would mix in the spices. Then, we would eat the ramen, usually with our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... electric motor. In a Baroque church, the organ would have been at the back ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like ... Bridge of Sighs in the background. I finally went punting on the River Cam

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some ... , playing minecraft in utter secret while my mom wasn't looking. i walked and ... . finally, i surfaced; it was daytime, the sun was out. i had spawned in a

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  I've always thought about doing crew and Taekwondo (TKD) in college ... class ended, I took a mini-break – only to return just in time for the ... 77 Mass. Ave., picking up 48 people. 40-or-so of which would wait in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about Buster Keaton where I had trouble in high school writing about, say ... . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24 ... course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  sure what could be. In the words of Veruca Salt, "I want one noooooooow ... would no longer be a toy." Mmm-hmmmm, aaaaah, I see! Oh My God I Love ... to our displeasure, that we would be doing an in-class assignment for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... near a cafe in downtown Mountain View, I popped open my laptop leaned my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going on in the world, it is a confusing time, and I want to make sure it is ... I'm writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Last night, I watched an award winning cartoon about snails, "Les Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... would they be and why? Oh, and ps, for those of you who are interested in

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in the oven anyway because I would rather have bad king cake than no king

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  . Had I not, I would have been disappointed in the final outcome of ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  group will be identical (in expectation) to what the treatment group would ... the policy. Or maybe employment would have skyrocketed in absence of the ... likely would have shared the Nobel Prize if not) in this exact setting, in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021