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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes ... these goobers were up to last night? Well, I guess you'll just have to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  hundredth) Photoshop, SketchUp or Sculptris project. More specifically, I get ... makes up a huge portion of the site. As Ann Hutchinson Guest put it when ... behind the scenes to make up the Village. Designing the interface is one

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Roy pulled up the app I made*, went to some detergent brand’s page, and ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it ... change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... . Of course, all the surprise bonding activities warmed us up. Who couldn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  of the two majors I ended up in, I would certainly be stuffing my ... , I’ve been wrapping up main summer development, and my team of beta ... for the final competitive round, I realized that I was coming up on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  life update to catch you all up to speed.   Hair   If I ... college, finishing up his degree in supply chain management, still ... , computers were always my brother's thing. Growing up I would spend my internet

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  some point during the meeting ended up following a tangent to the world ... in my inbox called “Discussing Cosmic Strings”; Alan ended up giving a ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He ... next two where the first two should have been. Greg picked up a needle ... breath. My heart kept beating. I thought I felt my sternum curl up toward

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  the image we end up seeing, but if you modeled rendering that way, you'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it ... stays there (hopefully), and when you're done, you usually end up with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . You'll get people who teach well but whose research doesn't live up to ... of the first to bring up the gender discrimination in academia. He was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  precision (5 birds were perfectly piled up on top of each other) but ... ). Eventually, we all but gave up on winning the competition part and focused on ... ceremony came up, the green team won a giant foam trophy for finishing first

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... hadn’t blogged, shown up to lab, or spent much time with friends. I felt ... compared to the happiness you give up to achieve it. This is where it stops

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  redundant, apparently). When school starts back up it's like a whirlwind of ... knee. Yes, I'm so manly that I beat myself up. I actually didn't notice ... ", wherein you can post question with a specific hashtag, and they show up on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... for 36 hours and then wake up and microwave some leftovers and spend the ... today will be a day worth blogging about, even if I don't end up blogging

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  can end up learning some useful techniques. To be honest, I don ... something you want to research, but you can pick up some practical experience ... that wants you to soak it all up. One day, you might be learning about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  up before 5 a.m.; I therefore try to fall asleep before 9 p.m.; I don ... these days. Yes, it’s even worth the early wake-up time. This experience ... my new job I started getting cold feet in terms of bringing up my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  ’re really not kidding. I found myself waking up on May 19 with no plans for ... flowing academic robe to keep track of. Imagine my nerves as I went up to ... on earth is the hooding ceremony,” I hope I’ve cleared up some things

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  following up on these surveys and compile the responses Create databases ... campaign is up and running Investigate the progress of other "Think Local ... geography lesson... The state of Hawaii is made up of four major Islands: Oahu

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The ... off campus, but I ultimately ended up returning as I hung out with ... of students staying over the summer are housed. I put off clearing up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is ... 's been up to while writing this musical. I almost wish I hadn't. "Well, I ... -playing robots would take up any time at all. It takes a special sort of person to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011