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• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  -over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... imaginary answer. Ex: “7 times 7 is 49, drop the 9, carry the 4 to the next column, 7 times 4 is . . .” etc. My hypothesis is that if your first

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

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  which when completed is the picture of you. There is no bad essay or bad ... process is that we don’t as admissions officers get to meet each of you ... you. The interview is one of the ways that we can personalize the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s ... two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... ." ...wow. Get ready folks, this is not an either or entry. You get both ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my ... , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... ranting, though. The point is that last night, a group of us helped our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... overnight. It is not yet close to the summers I’m used to, the August I used to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is—we’ve known each other forever, and he is my best friend, and when we talk, I don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  It’s Wednesday night. I have about 84 hours left at MIT. 84 hours ... place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... school he is about to leave, trying to feel some kind of good-bye: “I mean

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  frantically refreshing the myhousing.mit.edu page to find out where we had been ... other dining hall to boot. "This is OUR Shuli? The one who doesn't even eat fruit if we don't cut it up first?"[annotation note="This is a true

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  Spending a lot of time in the Unified Lounge (Unified is a course 16 class ... sure who drew that but it's awesome. (3) Balsa wood gliders, that is ... out  from scratch is ridiculous.) In any case, what ended up happening

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled ... -playing thing too - which is good because it makes me seem a bit more normal ... is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at 77 Mass. Ave. See the red circle? That’s where my studio is ... Rogers Founder”? behind it is where we hold architecture lectures. Now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST ... practices for analysis and design of manufacturing enterprises. Emphasis is on ... is the first time in my life that I've participated in Lent. For the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  get coffee. Coffee = bad! Here is my first page of 14.05 notes. Notice that my handwriting is not that bad. Here are pages two and three ... mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." -- Erdos I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  : I'm taking 14.41 this term Professor: Oh, is that PF? Student: No, I ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals ... as I love Triscuits, but sleep is one of them. Okay I'm losing focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  are even more limited now that my bike is locked up in the bike room ... would highly recommend this place. The restaurant is called Bay Leaves, in Kingston, RI, which is about thirty minutes from Providence. The commuter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  flights weren't very expensive. as a plus, hundreds of other MIT students ... Impala concert in TD Garden. a lot of MIT people went, and it was one of ... set i saw during a music festival last fall. Tame Impala is one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hosts the fall career fair. This is a pretty big deal at MIT, where all ... it is extremely rare for freshmen to get internships. Often times ... hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  a picture of all the toys and candy and stickers everyone is giving away. That's what the MIT Career Fair is like. All the rock stars of the ... really cool and there is a special place in my heart for CubeSats because I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011