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• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... , and then I came home and passed out on my floor for two hours. Ah, it ... sheer physical agony. I was finally awoken when my ex-prefrosh Greg, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  -nighter," so I'm figure pretty well on my way there. Of course, I think one of ... surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our ... helped my chances that I live within 20 feet of the news, sports, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  highlight my famous pink polyester pants with more achingly bright colors ... little paint in my hair, but that's okay, I'll just match Levi from ... better than my more sparse dye job, shown above. Oh, I can be like your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are ... family. The fact that my initials spell "red" and red is the color of blood

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  ) * The Times They Are a'Changin' (Bob Dylan) * If I Had My Way (Peter, Paul ... Youth - "Tunic" * Camper Van Beethoven - "Tina" * Pixies - "Where's My ... Jarrett - "My Wild Irish Rose" * Tom Waits - "Closing Time" Harold Abelson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  sitting on my excellent couch and shooting the breeze. Alan: What does ... , my thoughts were filled with pious and noble ambitions, which I so ... : Eventually—and perhaps because of related shenanigans occurring in my wing of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] jan Sije, which is how i'd write my name in toki pona, in ... words are used. I trace a lot of the influence in my writing from spoken

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  telescope in West Virginia (where my data is collected) is a National Dark ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... long strip of paper. If I took a pair of scissors to my data and tried to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... 't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses ... offer an alternative from learning from large freshman lectures (all of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Gann '00 for correcting my memory less than 20 minutes after I posted this ... only a freshman. Now, granted, it was my mountain bike, which is way too ... % of the dishes contain shrimp, which makes me throw up a little in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  be to say that there didn't use to be. There used to be (from my ... and 43rd. Reasonably, I cannot walk through walls to get to my ... obvious when it isn't. And this, is a problem. One my class tries to remedy

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... and shapeable. Fence cannot stop her; Fence can only extrude her. My Cat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other ... “basically logic.” My political philosophy papers have contained calculus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  ; During my time at MIT so far, I've learned some valuable lessons about ... hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... at the chance.  My first casual interview went well, and I scheduled a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking ... not worry if your interview report has not yet appeared on your My ... Documents The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the Admissions Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  strictly. My understanding is that MyMIT is counting words like won't and ... may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... you type directly into the text box on MyMIT, everything should be fine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  when I have a lot of work is also when I most enjoy my relaxation ... had to do, and I started off watching TV and sitting around with my ... busiest vacations in my life -- if it can be called that -- which had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... for my boyfriend on that stage. And the night after, BJ Novak was going ... three years, not giving a second thought to slopping my feet down all over

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... . (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  're expecting a really interesting answer like an elephant eating my homework, you ... collaborative learning, which is nice in theory, but what happened in my ... classical mechanics, and even if I somehow figured out how to get around my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007