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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  workshop in Building N51 and saw for myself everything that they do. Check

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  . Example n+1 of why MIT is such a special, strangely awesome place.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  the intensity without relying on "really"**n, a problem only exacerbated

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  I have some pretty fond memories of second semester senior year, largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake on weekday nights, and sleeping more than I had, like, EVER. And in

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  Issued by The National Weather Service Boston, MA 7:49 am EST, Sun., Mar. 1, 2009 … WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 5 PM…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular choice…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  , 2%] principal [principle, n/a] extracurricular [extracuricular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  INSTALLED DIP-N-DOTS MACHINE!!! A hollowed-out rectangular prism, it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don’t exist. I don’t exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  too. Eating as much In-N-Out as humanly possible.   Dear East Coast, You don't have In-N-Out, so you should probably get on that before ... ?? To compensate, my sister and I ate five In-N-Out burgers within the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I’m back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in the next 2 days, which you math geniuses out there should know works out to 1.5…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  would understand the "E/c^2 ... sqrt(-1) ... PV/nR" shirt. I was just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Name: Stu SchmillJob title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational CouncilHometown: Little Neck, NY (in Queens)High school: Benjamin N. Cardozo HSCollege: MIT '86, mechanical engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  James N. Murphy award, "for MIT employees whose contributions to the ... (another winner of the James N. Murphy Award), the custodian for the MIT ... with his James N. Murphy Award, from Donna Coveney, MIT News Office. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  right with n independent random steps will, on the average, end up about sqrt(n) steps from the origin. But if there is a pretty gem in one ... distance proportional to n. In a lifetime of many, many independent choices

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  . Usually this nuance doesn’t matter, though. Just say ‘so that’... 5/10 n, where n is… Example: “There are like… n mushrooms... where n is a small ... states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  enough if you distribute the 1/6 you get 1/12+1/12*6+1/12*6^2.....1/12*6^n which means the odds are just: lim(k->inf) Sum(n,0,inf,1/12*6^n). The

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009