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• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  for you to drink. There are men in top hats playing carols on trombones ... the weekend drawing, cutting, and gluing together my first project for a ... had a giant crush on MIT. I signed up for a million classes (five and a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... .851: Water and Sanitation Infrastructure for Developing Countries Lots of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  the circumstances. I spent the last two weeks studying for finals, taking my last possible final at the very last possible time for Harvard ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  for the latkes again. They're playing a video of a tour in the ... for the Latke. 8:16 pm This is turning into a roast! I'm not sure they ... introduced for Team Hamentashen. We're all receiving paper plates in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows ... . "weird"? Except for Simmons, which is across the athletic field from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  splashing for a while and the harp plays festive arpeggios that lead us into ... ?" and the song goes on like this for like 23 minutes, because there was a ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for ... program that will save 200 lives for sure. In the second version, one ... . The overall admission rate for the class of 2009 was 14.3%. (From here

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  competition, show week for the fall play, the Macy's parade trip, and Christmas ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  awarded to Card “for his empirical contributions to [annotation note ... for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... almost obligated to blog about what exactly this Nobel Prize was for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... way I do. I cook because it is the perfect hobby for a busy lifestyle ... got a perfect score on whatever exam you have to take for dental school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ~ next to my little blogger face up there. For the record, I am still ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  earlier than when it's due/next one is released, but psets are hard for me okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what ... for two weeks.   1:00 pm  I have daily meetings with my hosts (my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ... , I mean). Some writers try to sell childhood as prime real estate for innocence and unadulterated curiosity; for me, all the literary value of ages

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... doubt the IAP trip was a major draw for students, but I am also very much

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... students into steel (see last week's post for even more fire metaphors ... integrals for a little bit, maybe where they came from and gives some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  long break for lunch. We usually split off into groups and explore the ... fights for prison abolition in Brazil. While Brazil’s mass incarceration differs in some ways from America — for example Brazil has fewer private

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  ) Freshman Arts Program trinkets: a puppet we made for our fiber arts group ... event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... semester! 11) The program from Measure for Measure! Danny couldn't make it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... . When I applied for the TechX scholarship, I was really excited about ... enlightening to see how these issues played out on a larger scale - as well as

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... , it was about the future I saw for myself crumbling as my knowledge of ... one could be a coder and someone interesting for me to talk to at the

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  Cambodia, at a center for children with disabilities. They felt particularly ... , and beautifully-preserved Spanish colonial architecture. For example ... very foreign." After wandering around for a while, we stopped at the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014