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• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  this is college, and this is MIT at that, and there are tons of smart ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  of you on the road as well as old friends who were at the conference ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  looking at the list of companies that recruit on campus, or lists of alumni ... As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits, are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and ... just barely coherent. There seriously isn't one line of dialogue in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... !) At 9, we opened up our doors to everyone. I saw a bunch of friends, old ... event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  front half of its body, and the child just kind of licks it off arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket and the attendant REFUSED to look at my ID. I was hurt. Tuesday, my office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  by side, and coming in and out of the laboratory at all hours of the ... spent Western Blotting at midnight*, sleeping till noon, and hauling my ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  My dear former floormate Shannon '05 (who's still at MIT pursuing her Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  just 6 units, which is half the units of an average class at MIT, and ... schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but looking back at old blogs, I quickly realized that I’ve never posted my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  few doubles games with the regular group of players, i'm back at my desk ... because i have limited access to a lot of things, but at the same time it ... the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of ... between an absurd sense of calm and an overwhelming sense of panic. I've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  wafers must undergo repeated cycles of deposition, patterning, implantation of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon must be processed using the same set of machinery several times. This

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  , at the moment, and I miss the spontaneity of last semester. I honestly ... go to singing lessons and get better at fingerpicking songs instead of ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... several types of coins in both currencies, in case the toll booth at the ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  line of the guys' race, which at that moment has to be the most ... our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010