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• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in spices, so I took a page from the book of Ling and bought a 69-cent ... DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  the snow is COLD!" and amusing everyone else. I remember my first winter ... much snow...and the roommate was from India and having her first snow ... idea of what was going on and what the plots were if you read the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... options over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I ... a lot of my calculus and physics here because of the table space. I ... go to. I normally read here, for both classes and for the joy of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  musical chairs against a group of about 40 people (the majority of whom have their PhD). Yesterday I apprehensively put the equivalent of almost $450 into a vending machine and received 6 (apparently expensive) slips of

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  this year, probably the most accessible of the problems (and one of the ... (N), of successful free throws she has made in her first N attempts of the ... , and the opportunity to study math for a year at the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  we want you to know. One of the first posts I've read on the blogs, and ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a ... . Sure, there are a lot of books and websites covering the different

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  application essays. I saw confetti stream down the center of the page. “well ... , so I passed over the cold pack of leather and watched as she pulled out ... picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  that still prevails, the world’s perception of the U.S., and the ... Affairs. It discusses the consequences of the surge in Iraq, and is very ... English Novels (21L.471 ), Eighteenth-Century Literature (21L.470), and The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  , Baker House, like most of the dorms and halls on campus, was very involved ... ... The sign-up sheets for the teams would be in the lobby of the dorm, and ... or 9 years old and have been ever since. After the Red Sox' big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... pledges, the sidewalks were a maze of storage boxes and moving carts, and my ... and one-third in the all-too-familiar calm of the PNW, the controlled

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... community and beyond. All the sororities are part of MIT Panhel, which is our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Requirements, or GIRs. The GIRs consist of 17 classes, 9 in math, science, and ... ; Sciences (MAS) First Year Program. Each of the 8 required humanities, arts ... spaced out over the length of one's MIT career. With 8 required classes and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... , essentially, we bounded the area of a set by the lengths of its shadows. And ... _{xz}(A)$, so the left hand side (LHS) of the above inequality is 1 and so is the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... few times and have stolen some things. So, that's the personal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to provide the first 10 base 16, since hex is the way to go. 0x0. Lonestar ... Opera here in Boston. I love the costuming, the movements, and of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... Midway, I'll just try and cover the aspects of Orientation that have not ... to see. Friday night, the entire class of '09 and the Orientation

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the ... time each day. The first time I thought of taking up rowing was as a pre

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015