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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  for a month before I got a response from another researcher in his group ... of how I went from being a poor undergraduate student to being a poor ... For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance

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

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  and on weekends. However, I argue that it's still a long shot from ... .) We ended up settling on a charming old house two or three miles from ... here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  Desk might also turn up to sing a few songs. Pinkies, on 8/28 from 10PM ... around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of four weeks, I was a card-carrying vegetarian. Why? So I'd have ... days a week. I say it's for water conservation, but it's totally laziness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an ... that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  East Campus it was coming from. The laser pointer drew a monkey ... A Cosi smore-eating fest is a French House orientation tradition; we ... always has a light on because graduate students never stop working. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  car on the leg from Boston. It’s still a pretty spacious environment ... have a vague notion of them, trickled down from pop culture, of being a ... grab a couple things from my suitcase. The past three hours have passed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• 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:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... gorgeous today -- 82F with a light sea breeze and very little humidity -- so we hopped in the car and parked in a parking garage downtown. (Normally

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

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  teach IAP classes. They range from several faculty members teaching a ... Spring HSSP, a program open to students from 7th to 12th grade, where ... IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... useless information from interesting useless information, so I usually opt

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fall semester, the fuel from Orientation leaked, and I couldn’t keep up a ... benches, turned away from each other, stood in a beautiful pattern. I spun ... easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  didn't assign credit when he described results from astronomy research. A ... just under nine and a half MILLION Likes, and originates from Neil Tyson ... David Helfand: "Unfortunately we don't have time for a formal Q&A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  were forced to take a quick break from our tournament since they were ...   It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... batery failure in a sudden death one-on-one round (a clearly unfair call by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... id="attachment_39283" align="aligncenter" width="229"] A page from

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about ... -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  irl) from the guy who wrote THIS seven months ago. Enjoy ... down, hoping that my life will unfold like a romantic drama where a stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  anything from a two-hour long exam, closed-book, that everyone takes in the ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a ... classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... [Guest Entry from Kelsey Kennedy '12] When I sat down late last ... and all that certainly helped. There are just a few things I learned

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  assignments grew in length (from a 1-page comic to a 20-page full issue with a ... definitely learned a lot, but did you learn anything from teaching us? You ... authors; I was a huge fangirl of everyone from Ursula K. LeGuin to Steven

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014