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• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... make something combust, right? Well, water already has oxygen in it. So ... to incompetent peer reviewers. And that is how science works. To take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  -ripping conflict between studying rigorous math and learning where MIT keeps its ... to be hosed trying to prove that 1+1 does not equal the set of ... . It doesn't even go on the salad, unless the salad is potato salad. Y

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  but no one knows it yet. The important thing is to know how to recognize ... turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... impossibly old, even though, had I attended MIT, it would have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , going into my junior year of college, i’m almost done. it took me long ... ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... i interacted with the world. i think it’s borne from the wild

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  (what is the secondary structure of a protein? how does DNA transcription ... , however, NOT my last blog. That is coming, and (I promise!) it will be still ... ., but see how the district lines shift sharply northwards by Park Ave

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people ... score, but I quickly followed it with "I stapled my finger!" After a few moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... address, but does not prove necessarily that it is yours, or could be traced ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it ... myself in my room. if they're nearby they'll swing by and say hi, and it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  this year. Although our application does not go live for another few weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  on it are rather boring ("Get your picture taken with Tim the Beaver ... worth doing, but...it's just not that special. Which is why I've decided ... REX, whatever you want to call it) 2. See the live show of Rocky Horror

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this ... Relativity 24.900- Intro to Linguistics Only, as it turns out, 6.081, 8 ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's campus. The passage of time was a frequent topic of discussion: how could we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note ... that as soon as I stepped on campus, it was like no time had ever passed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  into the IAP time. This way, MIT does its best to cater to the previous ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  distribute free Bitcoin among MIT undergraduates to see how they used it. That ... , picking up long-dormant projects, and starting new initiatives. I'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at ... hostage; not completely involuntary I would say. It’s so easy to go into

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  this time as Josh taught us how to use the CNC. Its blades are enclosed ... in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... this stands for because I don’t remember and it’s kind of silly. It’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  Boston, all I thought about was how quiet my hometown was. It was hard to ... how starry the sky could be, and how blue. It’s almost ridiculously ... phantom. I’m not sure how to handle it, exactly.  In grade school, I would

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  it rhymes), because while MIT does have a communal love of gargantuan ... . It's a good deal, right? They give everyone quite a show (how else ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and the researcher (oftentimes their professor) than it does between the ... December. Naturally, we ran with it. Before Levitt co-authored the book ... from 12-1 in one of the large Tang classrooms, and it ended up being

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . How does your brain use your eyebrows? How many cells are in a panda ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011