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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other interesting problems. Other cool problems were the marriage problem, and ... professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  Applicants Schedule your interview now.* The deadline (December 1) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  Well, we've already been over the fact that I like recording minutiae ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the ... in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and ... first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot, tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  5th East alum, primering the room into which I'm supposed to be moving (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been ... painter and it wasn't going well - and the more I realized that it was going

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high-risk. The potential outcomes weren't you took no action so you are not dating ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  everything that’s happened since we last met, mostly focused on the developing ... the news before bed. I thought about the nightmares I’ve had, ranging ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  : 1) Google's homepage. 2) My favorite constellation is the APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the seven daughters (the constellation is also called "The Seven Sisters") of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... make one this year. Also, these posts are basically the only point all ... 1: Learn the building numbers – 99% complete. I'm SO CLOSE. I just had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  the classes i'm taking this semester yet. i'll talk about my three ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  Know that I'm with you The only way that I can be Until you're in my ... Coco; a full, encapsulating, body-shaking sob. Even minutes after the ... grandparents' dingy silver car and bracing myself for the nervewracking car ride

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  away from the action as possible, shrieking "OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY ... in the evening, I walk back to French House along the back of the dorm ... , and the cars and river add comforting background noise. When no one else

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently ... travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information ... something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on that day which began 4 more years of the Bush presidency, and I remember opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  My mind has been struggling to internalize the scary fact that it ... those feelings to the side, but now that spring classes have started, it feels like the clock is ticking louder than ever and choosing classes

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025