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• 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 ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what people gush over when talking about the Pacific Northwest is the hiking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least ... personalities. This is in part why one of my favorite websites this year has been New York Magazine’s The Strategist. The Strategist is essentially a sort

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  nuanced problem. below is a demonstration of how he currently maneuvers his ... the popular grip shutter for iPhones is just the little circuit you see ... 've had at MIT. you may be thinking that we just spent all semester gluing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  Activities Period (IAP) is long gone ----> You, like myself, may be ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... messing up a prototype more times than I expected, and that engineering is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  easiest semester at MIT so far. Don't let this scare you, prefrosh. MIT is ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... minutes is like the blink of an eye when you're being considerate of your

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  your house, the car is at the shop, and you don't have any firearms. What ... situations, risk-taking is essential. David plugged in his axe, amp, and mic ... Band or Guitar Hero drums against the undead is almost over. Here at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• 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 / 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