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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to ... on time, I run from my apartment to the Charles river. I cross the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... . It meant that I got to work on something that I got excited just ... using your resources to implement an idea rather than the results. The

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... Nick, on his newly furry face) Tomorrow, it's back to numbers, p ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the ... , directs the train to a different rail, which happens to have one person on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... inconvenient. The headway's on the scale of half-hours or hours. If your ... most reasonable option to get places. The size of the Bay Area also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... ), then you're looking at around 84 units beyond the GIRs. Add that to your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  be finishing in 15 minutes to get to my two classes this afternoon ... you have a problem) and have one page left to write on the linguistics ... seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Contest Continues Contest wrapup.

  

  So in response to the death of Pluto as a planet, I am undertaking a campaign to revise the mnemonic and change history books with YOUR HELP Here are the finalists. Cast your vote for your favorite! A. My Very

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... I last appeared in any capacity on the internet. Though I do intend to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the ... others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on ... calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative ... can be hard on personal relations. Many founders end up getting divorced

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning ... favorite topic. I was then invited to an upcoming juggling event. If you're ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  now, though, I've learned to use the word "soda" in New England to ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005