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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  't live on Loop but are on Loop too much, and Loop Boyfriends. Hacking You ... that I've picked up on that I realize are not quite the norm. Being home ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  . The first class, 6.01, the class that Hanhan is helping with, focuses on ... always willing to help. Granted, every Course 6 major has to work extremely ... Corporation. Currently, she is a lab assistant, or L.A., for a new class called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , students spend a semester on just regression. We discussed four additional ... also learned about the pitfalls of social science that now help me

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  -collegiate experience I look back on fondly, there are also parts of it that I cannot help ... being a brother of a frat or felt like maybe I was missing out on ... , especially something about how we lead our lives, I can be very stubborn in

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  on the ten side quests I had set out on at the beginning of my freshman ... another PE class ever again as long as I remain on the fencing team. It ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  gets warm outside, my room gets toasty (the one negative of living on the ... are high on my favorite burger list (and trust me, I am almost a local ... Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  that, so they will live out the rest of their lives only on my hard drive ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... . Today I'm here to answer those questions! (Spoiler alert: we're not really

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  9.12 professor Carlos Lois unwittingly helped me discover my ultimate ... just "not to live in a cardboard box after graduation") would be to ... tell, I tripped over myself before sliding down six steps on my right

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  ages. even though i saw half of you today. wait, what? who said that? no ... Square on Saturday night and promptly argued over where we were having ... to eat. We ended up deciding on Bartley's as we walked past it - hey

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  , which is based on DIN. [caption id="attachment_83910" align ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner ... EXTINGUISHER" painted on the left was also Helvetica Bold Condensed. But it's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -cooker minutes before the curtains fell on our loose-spined textbooks and leafed ... yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great ... Hall's lounges at 11 pm on Sunday. 1.Take 7 times 4, multiply by 10, add

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  [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