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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their ... , "Because what if I fail?" To me, this is the most important what-if of them ... start to be full of doubt or like you're losing something. Am I correct

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... 're interested in doing research on the dynamics of dating -- or the Kitchen of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  the truth was that she was considered a world authority on lots of ... seen. The biography is comprehensive, but of course the most interesting ... during which the mysteries of DNA were unravelled. Watson and Crick got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  take away was what everyone on every side of student health on campus is ... amount of people have told me is really helpful, and I plan on turning it ... . MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... -shaped, unsuspecting brick building on the side of Mass Ave next to a shady gas station ... or talk to many other Randomites outside of Loop, Random Hall still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  I'm taking 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) this semester, which is interesting, to say the least. Orgo is notorious for being slightly less fun ... .112 - Principles of Chemical Science, which I took last semester.) But my professor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  , which is the only one I dance in in our first set. I'm in all of our ... journey is different! this crisis, or series of dance crises, is testament ... semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an ... students may teach a class on ANYTHING to their students. A sampling of ... adviser is there to "advise" on what courses you should be taking during

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for ... train to the end of the line, light strangers' cigarettes, or speak ... , Substance Abuse] "That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  sprinkles and placing them carefully on the layer of icing, while talking to ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the ... hear stories or hear your parents remind you of the time they took you to ... has a ton of steps any of which if you sit on them, you get whistled at

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  , which proved to be highly entertaining. The first act was a group of ... certain trick on his skateboard, which caused it to break in half. Oops ... Baker to catch the last half of the Hypnotist, which was probably the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... . There are lots of other things going on, but as far as structured

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  honor of presenting the paper, of which she is the first author ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  I've been on campus for over a week now, which basically means that I ... logging on to the server at the same exact time so they can have enough time to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  myself of burdens they lead to my arms which are sticks unable to carry ... to the ground and a deep red blankets your feet. There is no amount of ... to really just dive into it since it felt cringey or awkward. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  competitive applicant pool in the history of MIT, which is arguably the hardest ... come to that conclusion on your own. As you know from some of my ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... . My new "i choose 18" tshirt from the math department (which is Course

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011