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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... one other has embraced this pact with me: the fantastic and wonderful ... it say E.Jones when I am B.Jones, and why is it squared? Here's the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  mention heard of, the programs and software I now am getting comfortable ... just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an ... fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and ... comprised of five to eight people, and teams compete based on the average number of minutes exercised each week. The first week’s goal was 150

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  snowstorms in mid-December and the first half of March." - Last year, on ... Today was the first snowfall of the year! How exciting, I didn't even ... across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  to do with the foody name of the place). I took a whole bunch of ... FPOP. The FPOPs are led by a group consisting of faculty and students in ... Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  about safety - and saw the city in a whole different light. The majority ... the current state of water quality in Haiti. And somehow, it all came ... with an ice pick and dug him out of the destruction. We listened to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an ... alcohol pinned to the top of the aquarium. The alcohol diffuses downward and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  tomorrow! OK – not really true. But the sense of freedom and spontaneity, the ... to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical ... Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  's work and calling do not lie in the theoretical disciplines of calculus ... consistently lead me out of the classroom and into projects more applied or ... from decades past, and we've all compared the levels of public transit

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... the dialogue I recorded over this video, and gave an overview of the ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  Trek: Into Darkness The Place Beyond the Pines And this is Part I of ... the rest of it is kinda..eh. Apocalypse Now is better and longer." Roy ... constitutes the value of a human being and the consequences of biotechnology

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  Did you miss the CPW webcast with Lauren and Jennifer? Well if you hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  excellent job talking about the pluses and minuses of taking a year away ... issue of The Tech is out, and includes a story on CPW. It has some photos ... by Random Hall. Amadeo said she chose MIT "because of the impact" and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  freshmen a run-down of interesting industries and opportunities in the ... effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the ... . That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  and it's my first class of the day - suffice it to say that because of ... the first semester, and then take Bio during the second semester. Since ... ), and the biggest difficulty of the course is actually finishing the exams

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of frozen river! 2) We saw Mary and the Witch's Flower, the first movie of ... For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... new gaseous and combustible form of water discovered by some guy at the ... page from the Book of Mollie-valations, here are some answers to some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  all of the high school qualifications that I have and I was wondering ... back on the 29th of October. This is scary close to the EA deadline and i ... blank with the date of the test and let MIT recieve the scores in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• 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