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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April ... -city's-a-madhouse, the 'tute annually gives us this four-day weekend. My favorite kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  you will later regret as you gnaw through the fibrous lump of homework ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating ... Wednesday beheld the night of MIT's annual Integration Bee, the spelling bee

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  handle it? I've decided to post all of the YouTube videos that I ... by other students, so I'd say that the content matter of these videos is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... on TV, part of the barge actually went up in flames. Remember, you saw ... So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  examiners, i registered for what i hope will be the equivalent of 48 units at ... for each class in the entire term. this is because a lot of your grade is the final exam at the end of the term (in the summer term

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol ... presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons, the toads would dig their way out of the ground and gather outside our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  contributions to the field of linguistics in my Intro to Linguistics class (24 ... States. We believe one of the most effective means of combating militarism ... that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... within a taped square on the other side of the gym. I don’t suppose

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  On Wednesday, December 20th, I took my last final of the semester. I ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like, then read the plot summary for every subsequent episode, take note of the ... polish them; the rest of the paragraphs just become a way to link the main

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... since they’re like, two out of the top three declared courses"]Course 6s ... = Lighting Design; 21G.501 = Japanese 1; 14.73 = The Economics of World Poverty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic ... , affectionately called ICE and ICE-T, taking all of the concepts from the last three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... scaffold protein found in the post-synaptic density (PSD) of neurons. It ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not ... is my progress report of sorts, starting from the goals I didn ... : Over the years, I’ve bought a bunch of sketchbooks but haven’t actually

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  tired by the end of the day! But I am really happy though since I am doing ... of the MIT iGEM team. What is iGEM, you may wonder: “The International ... competition, advancement of synthetic biology, and the development of open

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010