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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue ... Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I ... paper I worked on the mechanics of the golf swing. I told the professor in charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  some of the more interesting events as IAP progresses. Also, I asked in a ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One ... ) can play. We would hope this would be more of a dialogue than a lecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  -serving social events I can conceive for the chapter in the coming year. After ... reactor. Of course, I'm totally forbidden to tell you anything about what ... -hazing agreement, but you can use your imagination as to the kind of requirements for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... " graffiti in corinth       wow I can't believe those ... , home of great fish       Day 4: Olympia   I was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  .0 is the way of the future. I can't even begin to talk about everything ... 'm not sure what I can say in order to make you believe it more, other than ... it. I was really excited for the conference for a couple of reasons

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write ... of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes ... , general cuteness.) I love this place. So Mollie can tell you all about

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  digital age that I can't take an architecture class without having to install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to partition my macbook to install Windows, so that I can then install Auto

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  , I did the same, pointing out the complete lack of transparency in the ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  nerd than most people around her. I thought of myself in [annotation note ... know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  out of Legos. You know, you can get a UROP here? I mean c'mon, who ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... happens in there. I've found that it's sometimes easy to forget that this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  and blossom in such a short period of time. Now, I see that my skin is ... or droops in the middle.   because at the end of the day i am ... and empty, devoid of all feeling. And yet I see you in the back

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... apps? OK, well I can’t see you if you’re raising your hand, but I bet that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... . (1) Hiking Hjörleifshöfði in heavy hail. (2) The resting place of the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... 't let people tell you what you can or can't do because of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , all these expletives I can think of, and everyone's tired, the ... , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I ... in the days to come members of the community will organize additional ... system. In the wake of the events at Virginia Tech, many have asked about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007