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• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the ... Caltech to meet me (which blew my mind) and a few didn't get back to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  -mail, you're encouraged to write the body in both English and French. Now ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING WARNING WARNING!!! Physics content ahead! If you're afraid of physics, well

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end of the trottoir and have to wait a minute for your train, or for ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  therapeutic nanoparticles have a hard time penetrating the layers to get to the ... essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body ... -generational bloggerfest. If you come back to this post in a week, you'll get to learn why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a ... involved in me getting to the office. ~ And most importantly ~ - The first ... right now?" "Uhhh...in your room?" "Nope. At the theaters. About to watch

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  It is 2:30 and I already stained my neurons and nail-polished them to ... starting my 5.60 pset (due Friday), and c) brightening your lives, many of which are probably consumed by watching for your friendly neighborhood

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  feeds on our suffering. Hey, it's MIT, you need something to feed on your ... occasions when you get lucky, your pictures are terrible, because you never ... My last few entries have been, well, very academic. You get the point

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  with the Musical Theatre Guild. Should really get around to watching ... may take a while to get used to ("Look! A real life MIT student! And it ... An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  username and password that you use to sign into your MyMIT account. There ... receive your decision before signing in to decisions.mit.edu. In order to ...    We decided to bake this enormous pie to remind you that MIT

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  'll need to confirm that you're really who you say you are, of course, so if ... you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it ... past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  something different. This is your time to explore, find out what within astronomy you're interested in. It's important to see how a different mentor ... As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the cell gets both a red (your gene) plasmid and a blue (unknown gene ... students to have problems getting into good grad programs, however! 3 ... 's often harder for MIT undergrads to get into the MIT program than it is for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that ... toward, and it’s almost embarrassing that it took so long to get here ... , honor me.   Do you remember in spring how your body wasn’t your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying ... exercise and to eat and to get enough sleep. And I know that people have ... fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  collecting every block in the game and getting killed by every possible mob, to ... recorded as a P on your transcript, and a fail is sent to the backrooms ... , etc. I really want to get familiar with all of the crazy machines and

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your application matches your financial aid records. We will also ask you what you
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... our contact (who was supposed to give us directions on getting to our ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  to the best of your ability," where X=bike or car or Shrek or Tim ... your own Tim to this collage, please do in the comments of this post ... ! Sometimes when you're faced with a blank canvas, expected to draw something

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023