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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957 ... in a flash will leave you more time to remember basic stuff like ... my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... , bury trolls, and so forth. Of course, we don't use Slash, so we needed to ... 's commenting system, but to me that seemed like a bad choice. It excludes not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing ... was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... in a swimming pool full of strawberry soda, and will ride in it with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the ... letter). Additionally, I would recommend sending us a letter in mid ... to campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  a UROP in linguistics: I mean, research experience would be useful ... data, I also get to help a grad student complete the next step in her ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  doesn't either. Right now, you might be waiting to find out if you got ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... safely do so. [annotation note="me? oh, I'm still w a i t i n g to launch

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  to do things that remind you that you are, in fact, human. Take a ... that used to embarrass me but am now simply too tired to care because ... /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... seminar will be required to actively participate in class discussion and to ... required to participate in the seminar. Both men and women are welcome and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  worry came in not finding anything to do back home. I didn’t exactly want ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... about 3 million different things that spray water around in a myriad of different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... . Yeah, that did a lot to clarify any questions you might have had. Fine ... just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle ... a prefrosh, mistaking me for another 2013, I was ready to cruelly ... CSAIL to help develop a high-performance scientific computing language

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered ... undoubtedly heading to the library to cram for finals - people who in any other circumstance would be hurrying on their way - all stopped to pay tribute to a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... your covers so you're not in public when you find out. You might want to ... applied if they got in. That's a very tricky and sensitive position to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the school year, it’s really easy to forget that you actually go to school in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... a Thursday morning in 2007 seems to be a juicy, cooked-to ... Beef is supposed to have a meeting soon. **Just kidding. No, really. In

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  soda. I think Senior Haus is going to hold a sushi bar sometime in August ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the ... never seen a braille printing press before. I seem to have been unable to

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

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013