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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  good idea to live in a quad because I'd get to meet three other people ... . What a bad idea.) Living in Baker availed me the opportunity to be in ... in Baker, my first year, I got to know a collection of 8 people

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  's much easier to jog down than to jog up, so in about a minute and a half I ... About a month ago I got a comment in one of my entries that read ... in the morning is amazing. Then go to Bunker Hill and climb the stairs

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  actually over a little to the right, so it's moved in the other images. shhh ... this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a ... , scanned, below. (please keep in mind: it wasn't light enough to actually see

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  themselves to a differential equations textbook, buy their first starbucks ... Pass/No Record. And then I went to a party at my frat. Hey, want to come ... hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  , we struggled through a problem set, we sat next to each other in ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice ... courtesy of straightforwardness? Wouldn’t it be better if he had a chance to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... enough percussion players to have, you know, more than just a snare drum

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  space in the department's lab to teach everyone. MIT has a limited campus ... this would merely require more students to live in uncomfortable living situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year ... excited to commission as an Officer in the United States Air Force, to have ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a ... , and as such have to cross the bridge every day to get to campus. A lot ... "far" from campus forces me to plan ahead rather than fall into a bad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  was a ridiculous amount to see and take in. I could sample any color or ... solutions, people want to create a thermite reaction in the backyard of their ... attempt to personify a big, philosophical theme into a “smell”

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , who's in that other office, found a surprising picture of me under his ... hid in the biggest one, on top of the bed. Heroically maintaining a ... that I could put it in the washing machine. When she tried to push the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  incorporated technology or to present a technology in a magical way (or both ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of ... force a particular card to stick in our minds while rifling through a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  are totally beyond me) and I've been having a great time in it. I ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a ... food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July ... actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students ... a very intimate setting and an extraordinary opportunity to really get to know about a company. I was seated at a table with three other

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike ... is a man beyond description. He has been known to compete in dance ... would be. Fortunately, we were allowed to give a little paragraph about

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... applications to MIT, they should make sure to submit materials in a timely ... they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009