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  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging from my shoulders. I left it in my dorm room while I was away. I figured ... 'm in the area. It turns out that using a new camera, for me, was a little

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  vacation I've had in as long as I can remember - it went way too fast. After ... . What an amazing state you have! (And I honestly didn't mind how hard it ... year after college, I somehow never made it down to Stanford during that

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  and as long as it's not something really popular like Pistol or Yoga ... nice days, "Hi Sam!" and "Hi Ian!" But nothing else. No "How's it going ... tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  getting tenure. Or if you go into industry, it takes you a long time to work ... article is that the US is no longer the superpower when it comes to ... career path has lost its appeal for some students. Says junior Nicholas

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... interviewed. It's not true that only the EECS department allows MIT students to ... really don't like "inbreeding", but others are very enthusiastic about it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  collected periodically and we will be evaluated on how well we have used it ... graded first paper: Experiments in X-Ray Physics. It was way too long. It ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME.  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught ... -like ability to leap through puddles while performing his hit song, "It's Raining

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. …but I’m not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  comprehensive view of everything in my room, but it's cool to see how some things ... blogger as a sophomore has its perks. These freshman-year thoughts just sat ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Janice: I know it's been months since we've last talked, but now that you've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... , Martin Trust Center, MIT $100K, Startlabs, Sloan, do.it@MIT, E-Club, Sloan ... any questions they had. It was a great experience. Towards the start

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... halfway through term, and it feels like I just got here a week or two ago. Time flies here like I'd never fathomed -- before you know it, the day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  project, so it does not look as good as it did in the paper we based the ... with job applications. Looking back, it was definitely the right decision ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  do, and how those projects help the world, but what it's actually like ... could encourage more UK participants, because let's be real - it ... members across the Atlantic!" More about this Google program: it's called

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  blogs on MARC, it's MIT's Microsystems Annual Research Conference where we ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... they’re similar to ice skating where you push to the side, but it was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  making any of that happen because it was something that future me would ... Metcalfe's Law. Our idea ended up failing, but it was still my first real ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  shared history. It’s asking them how much they value their relationships ... , softening. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the suburbs, but I’ve always felt ... has eyes bigger than her stomach and wants to have it all, no matter the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower ... the tarmac, or…or it's too crowded. I'm sure the pilot will explain to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... – good work, the kind where I do it and then I’m like, “Whoa! I know stuff!” – in the past month, but as a result, my desk at home has suffered. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011