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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  possible. (image from Pinterest) I don’t remember when I failed to enjoy my ... fall semester, the fuel from Orientation leaked, and I couldn’t keep up a ... clarity. Gyroscopes would seem fascinating in those times, and I didn’t mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... seeing how people were actively trying to create change. People here weren't ... Matsuoda, the VP of Technology at Nest, she admitted that she didn't do

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

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved ... math and my own abilities. After taking 18.02 and 18.03, I just wasn't stellar at it anymore, probably because I didn't study enough, and mostly

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  January 11 Hostel Colonial House, Quito I'm currently wearing two t ... shouldn't have been a big surprise, but I'm having trouble reconciling how I ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery ... ! Ultimately, he decided that Mac and Cheese wouldn’t help him complete his p ... , “Definitely didn’t buy it. Would be so good on my plate of Cheerios right now

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles. And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go ... experience and higher-level coursework under their belts. That didn't stop me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  later pool their ideas). 2.00b wasn't free of those group dynamics, of ... honest criticism when someone thinks your work is shoddy.  Don't settle for ... something. Don't be afraid to actively take contrary positions to create

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  didn’t, carried my laptop up to my room, checked either my MIT or Caltech ... isn’t something that MIT can give or take away, and it isn’t something ... puzzle I enjoyed and worked on with my friend Catherine O. ‘12 (but didn’t

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  doesn't mean you aren't already awesome."Somehow, that statement was ... didn't just snap a picture of the gel itself. First, I did that in the ... above. So if the above isn't from the bromophenol, what's causing those

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... dream school.  What?? It didn't make sense.  I remember feeling the tears ... scared at first that I wouldn't fit in - that I'm just not smart enough

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  coure 10 curriculum. But we didn't talk about psets and exams. We talked ... work won’t spoil a fresh, clean shirt. According to Kevin, startups are ... explained. He didn’t realize the impact from the GEL program until he had the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  tiny description doesn't do it any justice, but rest assured it was ... out) to see if fish would get scared. (They didn't.) I always use this ... Google calendars in my life. Now I don’t know what I’d do without it, its

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  with Alan Guth? If you don't, quick synopsis: my section hadn't received ... honestly don't remember what I put, but I do know that I specified an ... think everything is interesting and don't know what to do with my life and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  shelf above our seats, but I didn’t think I was strong enough to lift it ... beautiful monument. I don’t know how I convinced Linh to brave hours under the ... complained at first, but in the end, she didn’t regret it. Niederdenkmal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . LiveScribe isn't the first time you've seen or heard of one of his ... management majors (and 16 other majors MIT doesn't have). But in a good way ... , don't discuss odds with MIT kids. I estimated them to be about 1 in 10

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  immensely educational, but I slowly discovered that I simply didn't have that white-coated future-self in me. It wasn't much of an identity crisis ... myself to learn a programming language or systems architecture if I hadn't

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  It's been a while. Hi. (This is a long post, but you won't complain ... any change in circadian period. It was pure luck that it didn't have ... a blog about revolving doors at MIT. I don't know how these things are

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  everything, and don't leave until you know math. At 8 pm Maddie '11, Megan '11 ... absolutely no idea what we were doing. Seriously, I haven't been to lecture in ... writes stuff down and doesn't actually pay attention. Danny has taken Diff

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

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... beginning, the train starts out really slow, so sometimes you don't even have ... -on." Coincidentally, I didn't delete an email I received a couple of days ago just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also ... awesome person and holds a lot of crossword championship titles, I don't ... felt like I didn't have enough puzzling experience to write puzzles of my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008