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• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and ... . Big surprise! [edit] Just saw the first comment about this all sounding ... you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  man who discovered the first oncogene say, “The street value of NADH is ... changed here. I have Professor Tegmark who, on the first day, said hello and ... fill them up with Gauss this and Gauss that by the end of the class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... , skidded three doors down and crashed into the calm, courteous glance of a ... knees in anticipation of assuming the final sedentary position, and then

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  and I set off for the final leg of the journey: Whole Foods and Trader ... minutes! We rode the Bluebikes to Trader Joe’s and then walked to Whole ... the whole time"]6+ hours of cooking,[/annotation] the feast was complete

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  it’s been a whole year. Finals are over. First semester is done. Now it’s time for relaxing fun. With the family and friends back home. I ... , I just kept on working and got the grades that I earned. Whew! That

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year ... celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... to wander down to the Porter Room on Sunday morning and grab some of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  within its floor plans. W91 later saw the installation and later removal of ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... back east toward the rest of campus and made our way to Story Time with

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words ... of people grabbed their coats and headed for the exits. Professor Moore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short ... even a trophy and everything. On the second day of class, we talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  this newfangled WYSIWYG editor? Gone are the days of WYGIWYG :( And why ... perfect thing to cool down the spicy taste of that steak and salsa roja ... -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of ... two major problems: first, you have to write a proposal, and second, the ... the gold makes the rules, and many of the investigators at MIT are very

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone who comments on this and the ... . (3) Interviews and parts of the application: I've interviewed students who've submitted every part of the application BUT the interview, and I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  -page paper on the evolution of hominid bipedalism for AP Bio, and so I ... on the front page of The Tech. It was kind of cathartic; I was a chunky kid in high school and standing at the finish line of the Boston

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... to the front of the stage when it was my time to start singing and did ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  from a television tuner). it costs about $20, and (with the help of some ... on the nature of fire), and her translation of newton's principia into ... , edited by nicole starosielski and lisa parks (who is one of the new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... , blankets, and snacks to last me for the rest of the day until the 7:30 pm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and ... sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now ... ’ve been getting more than usual on the blogs lately, and it’s a trend that

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO ... + years and he's one of the sharpest people that I know. Finally, it dawned ... exams and/or stuffed on a bus or the back seat of the car on the never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  for the first time since the semester started, coffee and lunch with ... , went to my first bar in Boston, and stayed up into the wee hours ... the first week of October, but didn't get to it, so I'll continue the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018