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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  .) ((*With the exception of Thank You For Smoking, a film which lulled me into ... thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black-and-white-and-symbolically-important

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  grandmother's house for a few hours. Jose '07, shown in this entry, took a month ... Linear Algebra; the only Course it's really a requirement for is Management ... five hours a day, every day, for one month, and I had a fairly rigorous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  still learned a lot. Every crew is responsible for doing a checklist and ... ) bunk room for about 5 hours. I got a lot of HASS reading done. =) Then, I found out that I got a new job! Ready for it? You sure? It's nerdy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you ... us. We haven’t seen you all week. me: I mean… okay. I am not a hard

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  for project completion was a bit too ambitious and we needed to add some ... A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four-day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp

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

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS-A ... for a more personal writing workshop.  Finally, taking classes outside

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  a musical proto-language arose from selection for sex and sociability ... scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... Oudenaarden, my 8.03 professor. (Thanks for that, Sam.) On Wednesday, I had a ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a ... because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  signing up for the Clase de Conversación y Composición, a conversation class ... applied for a scholarship from GECD received one in the full amount needed ... ? The conversation class met four times a week for three hours per day

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of ... of a final project for an independent study I did last semester. So ... the world, so then like, I guess it became more important for me to just

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  ?-Custom fish tank/mini fridge/plasma screen a possibility? Ah, so it's important ... .009 meeting, and then pack for a spontaneous 24 hour trip back to the greatest ... a little creepy. So, on to the essay. For a little backstory and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  it would make up for a lower CR score but I guess not. There is at ... certainly won't hurt you, but unfortunately it will not make up for a lower CR ... how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  browns" iafischer's city game, opened to a link for the script that Alan ... tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... , because why not! will follow a similar format to Alan's post :) poems (18

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... landscaper, and he said he felt angry too often. He was waiting for a “catalyst

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  should desire a GPA of 0.2/5.0 or so. Conventional wisdom for the ... temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  thing a little too far when we started playing bridge, and Gloria '11 came ... ever. Living in Boston. I lived at Phi Delta Theta this summer for a ... , and it's truly worth fully soaking in for at least a couple months. For

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of ... wandering the hall for a few hours I got a quick lunch at Tommy Pastrami ...   After that, I went to a small reception for sponsors and partners

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  figured I would take some pictures of places that are important to life here ... was taken in the fall, courtesy of Olay '09, another CME student. For

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008