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• 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.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... winner of a $3 million physics prize. The first thing he said was "I know ... 14 billion years ago (ish), the universe Banged and rapidly expanded

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  is the first hit for that (as you correctly point out) incorrect spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So ... prize was an issue of Cosmo.) And just one more picture from the blogger

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  pick up line in the comments, and if you want to see more of what is ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of ... astronomers over cocoa. Later on, you can find out more about how the first

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  horror movies. We can watch the first 5 minutes of any horror movie and ... website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... " and "cawfee," but NEVER "Joisy." If the rest of the country could just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... me. Even in high school, I'd go through the first two days of classes and come home exhausted. Then, it wasn't the rigor or difficulty of my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Somatic My spread for MIT's Infinite Magazine Issue XI

  

  understanding that the body is a sack of liquid and flesh. And trillions of cells ... Infinite's new little sister MIT Gala. This year, the theme of the magazine ... with the levels of abstraction that exist within the physical form. For

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in ... floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and ... 2:47 am, better known 26:47. Three hours and 13 minutes before the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  the nerdy adventures of Laura, Rick, Adelaide and Mason....West Coast ... cable cars. Do you know how cable cars work? One of the very first things ... let go of the cable, and stop moving. Well the cable car museum is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... 've set things up so that each class "works" one of the formals and puts in ... worked in the kitchen helping our (amazing) house chef, and some of us

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and ... their first 8.01 exam and realize that if they're going to change the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  the first and oldest lgbtq+ club on campus! I’m like half involved (um yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... have to post this anonymously... MIT is hella gay, and lots of cool gay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... asked more or less the same thing during non-pandemic times. The first two ... of regular and advanced classes, but..." — but they all boil down to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  younger and learning the basics of living in an urban environment, I had a ... and myself. So my first semester at MIT, I spent a lot of time figuring ... not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  closest of friends and familiar faces you still haven't learned the names of ... drunk for the first and only time in my life Watching leaves change on ... their numbers than anything else, that the courses of study span between 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  feeling of getting stronger and lifting big objects. I love the way your ... slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only ... to remind myself of that policy less and less. The thoughts I silenced

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  and it was the first time she had been on a plane. Lots of adjustment ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food ... truck in front of Lobby 7; it's cheap and convenient, and really hits the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  perfectly acceptable and will not be cut off- just check the pdf preview of ... reading - I left out one question and went ahead filling the answer of the question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of ... . Woodie Flowers is a national advisor of the FIRST Robotics competition ... dining plan where you pay a set fee in the beginning of the semester and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the ... Controls II- One of the most fun and practical of the Mechanical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007