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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  grandparents were visiting from New York. They knew we had a bad week so they ... get from A to B. The team also made augmented reality animations and an ... were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  educator - that being a scientist doesn't prevent you from teaching and ... up Raphael's aunt from the airport, had a snack at Harvard Square, then ... dangling off towards the garbage can. There's a box sitting on my otherwise

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter ... our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... a stunned daze, that this would be the closest I would get to a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of ... 's first 6-part fugue, transcribed a two-week old improvisation from memory

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  author of the book is basically a complete jerk (from New York, no surprise ... I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... high school. Anyway, the biography was great and from what I understand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  wrapping from a present that our friend Joana gave us! It was hanging on our ... This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... these things in a ceramic, mushroom-shaped container (which we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of girl though, she did not hear a word of what he was saying about the plot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  ’ from aforementioned Mentor, which coming from him was a real compliment ... to lose? My mentality was probably coming from a place of extreme self ... started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... reaction on that day. Now, how about a proper introduction?  My name is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  succinct, complimentary and distressing e-mail I've gotten in a while from my ... 't really a tomorrow from the cells' point of view). So, on Monday I'll be ... remotely control a heat exchanger and collect experimental data from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  Center, a Halloween party from the SPXCE Intercultural Center (for queer ... one in a later year? (Apart from being uberclumsy filing documents) No ... from Ohio State University told me that the 8.01 Physics I (also a GIR

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  conception of Next finally contracted, collapsing from a community to a few ... blog post comes from a very specific form of double-elimination used at ... rounds, you would be "out." Here is a blurry photo from back in 2018, all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  refrigerators, and 26 undergraduates from all years (with a huge range of majors ... closest to you, with the brown hair. That's Davie. Davie is a junior from ... from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who recently declared a major in Course 16

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  . Sreraman wrote, "can u name a few more from faculty commitee who make ad ... .wolf gang reads UG applications...Mit is cool!!!! can you name a few more from ... 're from a disadvantaged minority group in your country, from a lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  turned in all my papers. I wrote this entry from the airplane on the way home, heading away from the bubble of MIT towards the place I grew up. I had a realization the other day that Cambridge is my home. I will always

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should ... ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  a few things I did). Okay. You've gotten two posts from me in one day ... about Summer 2007 programs up until around January, but the info from last summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  and hear that she's learning how to drive from a driving school in ... some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four ... up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW ... things up. I see Matthew C. '23, lying on the couch, having woken up from a ... when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022