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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  freshmen must live on campus, the rush period gives freshmen the opportunity ... various living groups grapple to outsplurge each other on steak and lobster ... temperature in Kelvin (on accident), took a partial derivative, tossed up a pan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  (Sorry if you were expecting to read more about MIT, but exploring ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes ... today, and our goals for the course. It looks like a fascinating class ... !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Who: Natasha Elinor Grace Balwit When: Summer 2014 Where: La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís, more commonly known as ... 've heard that before, too. "Commit to it," he urges when I step on the gas. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular ... sitting on my excellent couch and shooting the breeze. Alan: What does ... mailing lists have thousands of people on them, someone inevitably does, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  . . . Wait, blocks sliding on blocks? Wait, that doesn't . . . huh? Sophomore ... a water bottle on said card house We have more card house on said

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote ... photos from the first stop on my trip -- London. Check back soon for the ... Palace on the River Thames Westminster Palace and St. Stephen's Tower

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good ... someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  've been crushing on. Today just signifies that a social convention has now ... Rule? It's the unspoken rule we have on campus that freshman ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing ... circuit”. Feel free to skip this section, but click this block to read a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... , and have no class at all on Fridays! First, there's 17 ... class relevant to students' daily lives, and (b) how MIT policy affects

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  with the people who helped me become the person I am today. If there ... GOING ON AT ALL TIMES, that it's overwhelming to narrow it down to one or ... I don't get a flaky biscuit, Moving on: I'm BACK! I love being back

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  start on Wednesday. (I'm still kidding! Oh man, I'm a terrible daughter ... itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of Orientation Susan Hockfield spoke in Killian Court while we munched on bagels

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... friends who went on the Summerland trail![/caption] The first part of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  So the good news is that the series of scientific mishaps I blogged about last week no longer exist. Yay, happy dance: (Devin '13 showed me ... TODAY, OMG, TOO HOT. (3) 21 days till my MCAT. Ahhh.

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  been made more clearly. While (hopefully) no lives are riding on your ... from Yale. He had recently spent a week on a reservation helping Native ... , make your case, even save lives: Edward Tufte argues that the Challenger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  still very relevant today.    EC takes on the interview: https ... helps if you have things in mind to talk about and can elaborate on your ... spending just 10 minutes beforehand reflecting on your activities helps

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which means that I am highly

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  recitals are very cool, and the tab lives on in my browser "Listening Tour ... I've always been pretty picky about managing my tabs on my laptop ... precious life?" poem "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver - not sure why this is on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023