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• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  influx of heart-shaped candies and frilly pink cards and teddy bears holding heart shaped candies and frilly pink cards jams itself into the familiar universe previously explainable by reason, science, and Stephen

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  of reasons for the man’s behavior and i’ll never know what the real ... head around how my classmates and i can make so much money sitting in ... creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and I filled it out by hand and mailed it with a stamp. I remember this because I scrutinized my handwriting, ripped it up a few times and started

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  level, salaries and working conditions are even more dismal. Students at elite universities are getting that message loud and clear. Melisa Gao, 20 ... this new era where communication occurs rapidly and information is only a

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... 17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  1.5 years physically at MIT and my one splendid Zoom U semester, I ... , branded tape measures, squeezable pigs, posters, plushies, and random other ... spring semester ended, I decided to be that onlooker in my closet and made

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  bloggers are like in real life... Feel free to hit me up with MIT ... Admissions, Stu Schmill, but we need your questions! Send anything and ... -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  real experts. So let's approach this from another angle: what conditions ... MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  keen and 6 hours adequate, but as soon as term's done and I leave town ... ; Feet - Considered what classes I will take next term and preregistered ... term, my body can't normally sleep more than 8.5 hours in a night even if

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

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  Florence and spend at least two days there--that way you can see the real ... cost money, ate a ham panini (so salty and delicious!) and hopped on the ... there after you check out. They have parties with free food and drinks

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  .06 instead of 7.05. Oops. I retreated with my freshly free hour and a bagel ... an easier but busy schedule this term, to raise my GPA and self ... exactly what it sounds like. And here we are. I’m starting the term off with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  friends you make behind usernames, and then you meet each other in real life ... food mailing list, and Daniel told me about the free food announcement ... semester, I went to PUMAC, in Princeton, and I kinda wrote about it too. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  don't have the money to send me, so I join the Navy and convince the ... academic championship (Go Beavers!) and all the team members got free Xbox ... approach the world with different experiences and preconceptions. Those

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake maker — for real-life clients. Over 13 weeks and under intense pressure, Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  student center, the free event supplies all the materials and machinery that ... event is held on campus, you are free to come and go as you please, but ... of free food motivate you to put your head down and stick it out for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  preregistered for IAP and Spring Term classes, started discussing new research ... easy to read and get an idea about some of my long-term goals within ... With my classes ending on Wednesday and finals starting the following

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  free food and interviews. I dubbed the event The Red Carpet Premiere. On ... , such as the fruit fly. (Sources: one, two, three, and four) ... ceiling of the Simmons auditorium and display my work of many days. There

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in ... , and did I say I get to see movies for free? Who wouldn’t want to ... Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  free!) And off I ran, striding down Massachusetts Avenue to the ... rim of Haymarket, a bustling, overcrowded sprawl of fruit vendors and ... and got one for free, inexplicably. Will is a logical person who sits in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  overflowing with free equipment and electronic parts to use, well, you can ... probably had about the same skillset in terms of hardware and electronics as ... with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014