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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  August 23, it means: Um...yeah, year is almost over. Might as well start in ... waxed philosophical in a fairly lengthy essay, pondering if the segue into ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  5K with Brad, who is a marathon runner like myself. Sadly, he became a ... -friendly town in the world and a bustling, vibrant city. CPW taught me a lot ... Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Celestrium (which is a non-precious metal that's really durable.) The gold ring ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  event... And this is the "after" picture, a half hour into the event ... Association sponsored some mini-golf, with prizes for a whole in one. Sadly ... currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  professor has emphasized in class is having a clear narrative structure -- a ... . Making a documentary is such hard fucking work, but I've learned so much ... . Obviously this is...backwards and bad but it never really settled in that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... welds[/caption] I showed up that first day in a Killers band shirt

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  -and-half idea. As you can see, light really is a problem in this room...but now ... in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... are a lot of things you can do with them in terms of design

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else. Well, no not exactly, GREs cost $$$ and are a real pain in the neck, it ... a classroom in building 66, parked my butt down for 3 hours and took a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  , no matter where I end up next year. But this is different. In a few ... is actually pretty cool, because we're learning and practicing a bunch ... be in the form of a blog, I thought, "well how can I not?" 1

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  soda. I think Senior Haus is going to hold a sushi bar sometime in August ... a service project with APO. APO is "a national coed service fraternity ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  whether I am in fact "a resilient device," whether I will ... !) yesterday that "spring is a tease. It's never as warm as it looks and ... didn't wear a sweater (in retrospect, could have done with a long

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind ... as you is definitely a good skill to learn. Additionally, there is a

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  after 11:18. That is a LIFETIME in late person time. I could have made my ... wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym, it's only fitting that MIT is itself a LAND OF ACRONYMS. Our first few weeks as a freshman on campus involve a deluge of new three-letter codes

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own ... Anti-Asian sentiment in America is not new, but this last year has given

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the homeless shelter just in time. The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter is the only student-run homeless shelter in the US. It was opened in 1983 as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice ... company so we braved the elements together often with sleds in tow for a

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page research paper in Latex, prepared a 15 minute American Physics Society style

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  / been in a class with every 14-1 and 14-2 in my year.']exceptionally rare ... ='i also was taking this in part to fulfill a requirement for a course 6 (cs) minor. i’m a firm believer in taking classes and just letting the minors

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 9, 2020