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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  time I was stuck in an airport overnight? The next day, I and 1,203 other ... funny, especially in the part where it addresses student complaints with ... combination of awesome scheduling skillz and sheer luck on my part, this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  reduce the time a patient spends in surgery. Additionally, it can be ... drugs to parts of a heart that might have died after a heart attack. If ... Robert Langer. (We’ve written about him numerous times on these blogs

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  from anybody who knows me, but whatever, it's still a good time. I tried ... leaving the student center they head towards the main part of campus ... at the great dome. This is the part of the tour when the tour guide

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  It's 11:42 am Eastern time and I'm packing my bags. ¿Porque? The MIT ... in ours. The white part of the target is stationary but the black ... you miss the black center and hit the white part you get to stare at

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that ... work with ferrets as part of my UROP. You may be wondering, did Paul ... watch. A little background. I'm part of the Langer Lab, which is one of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  -backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me ... habits was probably the hardest part of transitioning, for me, into a ... Physics C - but at MIT at least, even you will experience a time when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  -winning composer John Harbison. I remember one time, a book was recommended to me on ... all time, Mitra writes about The outdoor terrace, where mes amis mingled ... counterpoint of all time. We spent about half the semester just studying his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  ) - Reread lots of books that I haven't read in a long time - Attended my dad ... possible you were admitted in part because of the intelligence and character ... went to public school." Part of the purpose of first term pass/no record

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  every time anyway, the other part of paying attention is seeing what ... the form “of course humans have x body part to perform y function ... probably moves forward at roughly the same time as your right leg, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I ... ’t have the time or energy to go somewhere that’s actually naturey, walking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  lecture schedule, and textbooks used. This part of the class took some time ... 3) try to maintain their sanity, all at the same time. Another reason ... time with the introductory simple examples. Thus, over time, the class

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

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... well (and is volunteering to do this in their free time). It’s also a ... their time at MIT; I know many of them are more than happy to talk to you

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

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  all my time working on classes, I believed it. Two. On registration day of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... 's not true that I spend all my time on classes. It's not even true that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  . First, we spent a long time cutting up the fabric into strips. Then, once ... pieces were finished, it came time to do the photoshoot! After a lot of ... stressful part of the entire project. I had never done something even remotely

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... tell me, all the time, that I've gotten fatter. That my face is rounder ... phenomena, the connotation of being mataba has changed over time. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... hadn’t had in a long time. However, boba tea (or any other form of cold ... beach volleyball at some point). The beach volleyball part didn’t happen

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  closest is maybe the time I made these Vietnamese Chicken Rice Noodle Bowls ... be now!) 1. Take your time. Walk around. Observe all the differ ... needed potatoes at the end, take the time to take stuff out and rearrange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward). Seriously, every time one of the course 5 professors mentions R.B. Woodward, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  when / but time and time again / younger now than we were before" I ... papers before me, wondering how many times I've done so before already ... 9 pages of absurdity (on my part, since I left 1/3 of the test blank

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  . By the time you read this, I'll have been home for over a week - but as far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... . Academically, I had a bit of rough time this semester, and the main reason was 8

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007