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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  E-mail is pretty awesome. No joke, "Reply All" is like the greatest ... little e-mail exchange that made me relatively happy (mostly because it's distracting me from 2.004 studying). Here's how it started, with an e-mail to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  (P.E.) “points,” then you won’t receive an MIT diploma. Harsh, eh? That ... the Pacific (for example…) The 8 P.E. point requirement can be ... sign up for these classes on the P.E. website through a lottery that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  [Editor’s note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact information. If you are having trouble contacting your assigned EC, please email [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]  …

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  bar and swing by our knees. Even if you (e.g. Mitra) have no upper body

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  Group D: Angola, Iran, Mexico, Portugal Group E: Czech Republic, Ghana

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…

  

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  • by Ben Jones
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  've already received an e-mail to this effect from my good friend Lynn that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow, here are a few notes... Some folks from MIT and NIST further confirmed that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  100th anniversary celebration of the creation of E=mc2, Einstein's most

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  ="All I really remember thinking about 5E at the time was amazement at the ... Alison’s, but Ayyub stalled in 3E Main Lounge on the way. I popped my head ... ’t charging me.    Somewhat surprisingly, there were only 5 people in 3E

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  received an e-mail saying that "Professor Alan Guth has agreed to serve as ... to immediately re-open it to e-mail my mom, sprinted outside to tell ... . Soon, we were e-mailing back and forth to schedule a class registration

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  are all numbered (e.g. “I have 5.111 at 12:00 in 10-250”) wasn’t enough ... Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... in MechE would provide me with a solid yet broad engineering background

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to Nisha D. ‘21, fellow blogger and 1E resident. 4 (left). From a ... from the annual 1E Hall Thanksgiving, cooked entirely by students and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  action would be to e-mail my professor and my TA. After procrastinating for ... first of two very profound e-mail moments. Out of the blue, I got a ... LIFE - forget how it felt to receive that e-mail. If I go crazy and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  A couple weeks ago, my dorm (Burton-Conner) got an email from the front desk⁠01 courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O. beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi…

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  lot of people told me in my freshman year not to join DPhiE. It was ... telling us they don't want to join DPhiE. They hadn't even talked to us, yet ... live in the house since I wasn't as close to DPhiE as I had hoped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Sometime last year, a prospective student e-mailed me asking about ... instead of coding all day. I LOVED it. When I e-mailed my first draft to my ... ; *         *         *   On November 29, I got a *REALLY* long e-mail from "no

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  partially inspired by e.e. cummings* and partially inspired by Python code. *By “e.e. cummings,” I mean “the Wikipedia entry on e.e. cummings

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  This past weekend, the US underwent one of the biggest snowstorms of the decade (at least that’s what Yahoo news told me) impacting more than half the country. Most people…

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024