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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  fats, the carbohydrates (A) and amino acids (B) react to form some crazy ... . 3. Trying to order earbuds and a cast iron skillet from Amazon.com. I want to skillet so I can get some searing action on. In a beautiful bit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  with Carlos, I walked over to building 16 to lend a book I had just ... People often seem to think that going to an elite school, particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local ... 've told that story before. What I want to talk about, is a tiny detail on ... to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... its purpose and they know what to do. A few rehearsals later, and it

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how ... as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a ... start?” I’ve been through it. It doesn’t have to be a hair pulling mess

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in ... normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  that was as close to a celebration as I had come in quite a few years. A ... headed back to my room to bum around for a few hours before 6pm, which was ... easiest costumes to pull off: ninja. Krystal’s Guide to Being a Ninja in 10

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a ... we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  the MIT Class of 2012 will treat you to a rousing litany of Academic ... the issue: If you're a freshman here, you are most likely accustomed to ... then you come to MIT, where relativity is not just a theory but a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  .) Brain and Cognitive Sciences (or BCS, or course 9) is a small-to ... reading. In order to graduate with a degree in course 9, there is a rather ... Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... commented that perhaps I would like to someday become a professional plane

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to ... are admits. Earlier today, I was working with a colleague to clean and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  entry coming soon!) counselor - I've had a chance to spend a little more ... . It gives people all over the world a chance to submit stories about ... to share this site with you for a few reasons: (1) Christina said I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  Amtrak train, and more recently a day trip to Providence, RI also via Amtrak. One day, it suddenly occurred to me that when I'm on a train, I ... from NYC to Providence, I started reading Stone Butch Blues as a pdf on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... when written well (i.e. when written by actual employees and not HR), a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  project to make motorized hamster wheels and a few other projects as a high ... ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... ? At some point or another, each of these numbers has felt to me like a ... professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... , incidentally, I started doing a couple weeks ago thanks to Netflix and Amazon ... .900: Introduction to Linguistics A very long time ago, I told you guys about my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012