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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  Chemistry, we reviewed how to solve 2n + 4 = 15. 10.490: Integrated Chemical ... by companies. On Friday, we figured out how to design a showerhead ... Harrisburg and moving them all into my room would motivate me more to start

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you ... since childhood I have been dreaming to go to MIT ..in fact go only to MIT ... an essay. But I have heard that MIT doesn't like to recieve extra

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  all I know is that I want to do something great. I just have no clue how ... clue how to approach with a paragraph on seal whisker sensors and a note ... awake, remembering them.” Pause. “I need to figure out how to word that

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  downloaded the app, trying to figure out how the software worked and different ... For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  then pop the balloon both inside and outside of a box to compare how far ... you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  of 9 to 1. How do you get time? You write. You argue persuasively for ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... facilities are open to anybody, and some only open to certain communities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  blogosphere. 3. Drew asked, How do we know what foreign language class to ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  figure out how I want my schedule to look like for the spring semester Nora ... my roomie’s house for thanksgiving! i totally remember how to do it x ... > how to calculate t-test values for small data sets and determine whether

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  friends to gnome game. My protege Joy is something of a prodigy, achieving ... online that go into the 10k region. Also, once my roommate managed to get a ... always surprising how much you can play around and experiment in such a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  better. Or that was how things were going to play out anyways. And frankly ... and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for ... with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  welcome at all the schools we visited. It never ceases to amaze me how ... wrote about his awesome experience traveling to Europe with the team! You ... people travel to western Europe to see cultural or historic sites, my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  worst one-word sentence hooks ever. See? Apparently, I forgot how to ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to ... -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... .Helvetica: It's an esoteric documentary about how the earthshaking invention of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  excited to see how well it turned out. That's all hand done, all the pin ... during the race. The creativity of all the bikes had a lot to do with how ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  Something happened to me this summer. I'm not sure exactly when or how it took place, or if it had anything to do with me becoming a senior ... celebrated July 4th in the most American way we knew how - going to the beach

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants I'd go to were [annotation note="small local chain with pizza that ... closest to campus, as well as [annotation note="sandwiches and delicious ... "]Roxy's.[/annotation] Now, most of these places are closed, so if I'm too lazy to cook, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  : $3), you can consume Boston's favorite treat to your heart's (stomach

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  mainly about two things: how to make interfaces that are intuitive and easy to use, and how to develop technology that makes that possible. Before ... question of how to evaluate and troubleshoot user interfaces. The one that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018