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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... viewed on Thursday or Friday nights. A typically-MIT* trajectory of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may

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

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  . Everyone is going to have an opinion on your choice of topic, or your tone ... substantial amount of college essays, but I have a couple things to say on the subject (I myself wrote around 11.5, some of which never went to ink), so I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... . It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... , but I have to rest well on weekends. If there is a test the next day ... or fewer hours of sleep, I have to get 7+ hours the next night. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  coolest people on campus, moved up to the top two or three when she showed ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... an entry this is going to make! Well, it turns out that MIT is such an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  creating codes, which is why we're learning about it. A lot of 18.310 has ... parts are being activated. So the class is about the use of fMRI to study ... Probability and Random Variables. This problem set was on chapter 5, which is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  related. Usually, it is related to personal problems or preexisting mental ... sense of these tragic events, it is all too appealing – and unhelpful – to ... treated disorders to establish a system of continuing care while on campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of ... to grad school or possibly working if I find a cool company who wants to hire me." A whole month of school has already passed, people suited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  applications so I don't have to survive on ramen alone in my first year of grad ... is, to the best of my knowledge, particularly strong in ... an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... on, but become even better - because he owes it to the mentor to do so ... efficient. I've purchased an enormous bulletin board on which I plan to attach

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to ... make my 13-minute (!) layover and get on a train to Lancaster, PA. If I ... down I-81, which is fortuitously right by my house. So, Moria and company

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  pineapple instead of a bouquet of flowers, which made my night even better ... outlet—dance—since i no longer have time to read or paint or do any of the ... first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  one with one thing on our to-do list, which was to get our fortunes read ... a car and driving to Texas. Of course, nothing is that simple. The ... Houston on foot. So, after a lot of deliberation, we decided to cut the trip

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  and the leader of what is now my lab, my resume. He forwarded it on ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  enjoyed, despised, or wholeheartedly attempted to read this summer. Of ... to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... , which started to turn me off about a third of the way through. However, he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... went on my laptop to look up nearby piercing parlors and pictures of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy ... the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor ... cross-register (paying full MIT tuition, which you kind of have to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  example, for 7.012, we're given a list of topics to review, which is a handy ... Monday, so time is money, which leads to... create a study plan I start off ... examples that have shown up on past exams or psets. I like to add key points

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  way which saps away any hint of other emotion, positive or negative ... Desk. Instead of LA or grading roles, I am doing policy research on ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to ... [annotation note="'43 Orders of Magnitude' which is a sort of humanities ... ="Fluid Physics"]8.292[/annotation], all of which I was planning on taking anyway

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022