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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  sister, and I find my bike. I take the key out, stick it in the lock, and ... . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... in." "I am sliding it in." "Hold it so it looks like a U, not a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  said primary source, I can tell you that no, MIT doesn't have the highest ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that ... can't figure out which side of it annoys me more - the implication that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... .m., making my way through the sixth season of Sons of Anarchy in the Destiny

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  then, I've been in a bit of a rut. I've been freaking out a lot ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I ... contestant in the pageant! I joined it on sort of a whim because I wanted just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  intense in that they expect a lot of you or they can be really into the ... set can I get away with skipping". By the end of term your work will ... supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right, I actually ran out in front of my entire dorm and started dancing ... conga line that tricked me by disbanding right as I was in the middle of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  many other of his students, I was in awe of his mission-minded technical ... what they can teach you.']I could have picked up the basic principles of ... by a [annotation note='As I told MIT News, in my time as Dean of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I ... , and a bunch of LAs. Kevin and I live in a dorm with more than 350 other ... /7. In case you're curious, I've seen all of the above, or at least very

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with, so you can see what kinds of really fantastic and interesting and great ... for one of the most prestigious research journals in the world: Nature

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... many symbols on it in honor of various events and ideas. Some ideas

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should ... at MIT. I mean, come on--he grows ears out of the backs of lab mice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... waist - was right in front of me, looking up and talking earnestly. As I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... through all of my other commitments, I studied from 10pm to 2:30am. Then on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... Wednesday and I've had each of them once by now, so I'll give a quick rundown ... lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... most of the joy is in seeing the recipient's reaction, so I don't know if ... If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  obtained to relieve me of the MIT firehose-induced famine. In truth, I ... hours straight, and there were no signs of the downpour letting up. I put ... from me (Coincidentally, he wrote Wubi and LVPM, two pieces of software I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I ... finished today. Speaking of starred items, I between taking that photo 3 minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  of submitted supplemental materials. I can’t type endless text into my ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013