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• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  is glorious, as you too might realize after spending 16 hours in a ... , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously convert. (Lack of bacon creates a positive Δ in the reaction of my becoming ... . This isn’t a big deal in normal life- I mean, you just exercise a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  stake in the whole thing is general mechanical design, specifically as it ... 1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of ... maybe "high-stakes" is a bit of an exaggeration, but it's a ton of fun

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ...  me. After all, even if a company is only actively recruiting course 6 majors ... The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  It's really nice in Boston today. I've just returned from a walk along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... really miss sailing. Sailing, in my opinion, is the best PE Class you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found ... hadn’t really considered math as a subject in its own right, outside of ... applied math in its own right, as a field I might be interested in.  

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible ... , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  networking/social periods, and a few other things thrown in. (Check out the ... hello. So what do admissions people talk about for 6 days in a row, 16 ... experiences in this profession have given me a ton of stuff to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little ... . This was a pretty good whim. The second is a novel written by Gabriel ... ), retaining the grammatical flow of a new language is something that has been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so ... math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  Influenza A, subtype H1N1 is the most famous swine flu virus. It is ... ten years. The influenza B virus is less common than influenza A. It ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  , could be acquired in a variety of stores, some of them nearby, some not ... metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  Mari and Prof. Patrick Henry Winston. Winston is what we at MIT call a ... time in more than a week. Yes, the regular action selection committee for ... process. This is a good thing for you, one more way that we make sure there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... my dear friend Juhee. (Juhee, this is a shoutout.) REEEEEEEEMIX  So ... Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  this is a little abrupt, let's start from the beginning. In Burton ... a theme As you can see in that last picture, Dorothy is bad at ... first borns. The topic in question? Bathrooms. Apparently bathrooms are a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , nevertheless seeing potential in me and supporting me. it gives me a sense of ... , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... months, which they started planning about a year ago after learning a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... UNESCO). It was also a quiet town that after around seven in the evening is ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022