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• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  -midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from ... a pen with which mass writes on the pages of spacetime. science ... . from the cold, sparse simplicity of adding and multiplying arises a rich

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  runs. Calendar: Hello, readers! Anyway, it's the beginning of the new semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week ... " meaning "sick of" and not "finished, because I have landed my dream job, see

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  for the program mentors’ training—my first work trip and solo hotel stay ... library card for work and now have the power of access to the world's best ... from the 1970s-1990s (and even 2000s). The best parts of medical papers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  -fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness of autumn tingles with the sound of ... first round of tests on the undumped-upon freshmen. It's been a rough week ... version of bowling in which the balls are actually test papers and the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  the middle of a shopping mall. It was two in the morning, and there was ... with vertigo. It was the first time I had a bout of vertigo since January ... and talked about the rules and stayed for three hours. Lots of people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  love. The blogs were one of the first pieces of writing I ever binged ... and pulled me up. All of these experiences are the kind that shape a ... could be proud of. I'm not all the way there yet (who is?) and I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... to keep everyone up to date with some of the IAP fun, and definitely

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  at the center of the room, and quietly slid to the edge of the room ... : Burton, and Conner. "]Conner-side[/annotation] elevator(s) instead of the ... ! And I realize that all of the rooms with unknown people could all be

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... maintain their own gardens Behind me is the bustle of Kenmore Square and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... and care with the application process. You also know that this process

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  the areas below and ask yourself what the significant events in each of ... accomplishments stem from the sole merit of being an MIT student and I'm so appreciative of the amount of people that support me, root for me, and vouch for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  the first floor of MacGregor. If you like to order food (and really ... hypothetical dorm room. First, the website for the Massachusetts Bay ... websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... . My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  . But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... fonts."]display fonts[/annotation] of the Technology Review and the Media ... .) And the bottom third of the poster is in Comic Sans. Comic Sans is one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  what to eat first and how to get to the bottom of the plate let alone see ... a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was ... the picture on the left for 70% of the semester, and like the one on the ... website to explain the problem and solution. Previous years' topics range

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... , here’s some notable parts and video work of the exhibition:   ... . And that show was very interesting. It was the first show in the gallery

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were ... that the world of fussing over grades and AP scores and class rank is a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005