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• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my homework requires me to be online--so, while I'm supposed to be looking up the fugacity of carbon monoxide at 345 K, I'm more often than not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... .M. (school isn’t in session yet, not that this is even slightly correlated to ... the job and I’m nervous. Do I even still remember how to write code

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  ). We're now taking bets on how long it takes his MIT classmates to crack ... tapping into what he already knew about humans, like how to make them ... technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  cuddly equine head to test how kids would interact with the Speedy Stallion ... myself puzzling out how to implement a certain feature in the back of my ... MIT offers. Not to mention, I tend to operate better when I get >4

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . I think wikis are brilliant creations- not just Wikipedia itself, but ... there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P One of my favorite books ever is The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all on grades...the most I've ever taken), so I opted to stay on campus

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to ... from me. So anyway, there’s my first compelling reason to come to MIT

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  something my mom would say to me, but she never actually called me Margaret ... myself I would never become. What happened to make me neglect my bloggership? Well, senior year happened. And that’s certainly not a good enough

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  , one guy (loudly) to another: "What's wrong with you!?! How the f**k have ... Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... ="Our parents, not having grown up in the US nor gone to college, don’t fully ... not being home."]summer[/annotation], and to ask if we can work remotely

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  tried not to drown. But if you’re like me, your attention span’s shot, So ... My apologies to Clement Clark Moore. ‘Twas the night before finals ... there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... Roommate: That's not sexy. Me: Yes, yes I know. --- My Roommate: We need a Medlink. Enter Medlink, Mike. Medlink Mike: What seems to be the problem

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  CL South junior goes to MIT a year early Date March 27, 2006 By KAREN ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her every Friday, and this week Bryan and I got lucky. Now, I happen to think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... members to come and speak about their academic departments, and to bring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  "pranks" I'm not sure how much I agree with the statement that hacks at ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... repair. Lyle will also be teaching 7.341, Not Just a Bag of Enzymes: DNA ... encourage you to participate in all of it as Jessie and Mollie have both also

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... i'm angsty and want to do nothing but sCreAm because i'm not ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... how they're so different from what we're used to studying and why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  it was for her to see her mother sick, how her fifth and sixth birthdays were events she wanted to forget, and how she sometimes had to make ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010