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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... agree that this picture perfectly captures the spirit of our summer living

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  Shirley – Maginhawa From Colorful. My first post, and it's one of the dozen ... cover. I first heard it used in an episode of TV series Dark. The dynamics ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  first spoonful of soup, the cooks gave permission for seconds. Unfortunately, nearly everyone was so satiated by the first spoonful of chowder ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  blogger slack is one of the first places I think of because you all have so ... pixie dream girl world, where the rules and laws of the world are beneath us and we are, in fact, the drivers of the plots of our own novels

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  possible after completion of the fall semester, second quarter, or first ... Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... at your application again and consider it in the context of the Regular

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  the whole admissions experience more fulfilling for everyone involved - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’t remember which of the two I was first interested in, but they kind of feed ... ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... untouched, in the sense that it’s whole, or complete; compare intact, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on ... . Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of students admitted to the Class of 2010, as soon as this Saturday! Check out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  event. The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely one of the more anxious pre-frosh two years ago, so I figured it might

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  whole other blog) and if this course is to be believed, the Germans spend a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and ... by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it

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

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  . Your goal is to make an even coat of WD-40 across the whole board.  WD-40 ... this recipe in the summer of 1963, the hottest summer we ever had…”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young ... one of more than 20 public art installations all part of the culminating

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , no one heavily edits my blog posts, no one quality controls most of the ... listening to critiques during class. My story was the very first story we ... was kind of confusing what the wind represented", or, "I was left

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable ... released the MIT "Future of Coal" report -- there was a lot of interest in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Email one professor Email another professor because the first one ... has a lot of incredible experience in the exact area you were hoping to ... will all work out, and think of a back up plan. Come up with the back

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020