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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  . "Delayed by four minutes every day" is a familiar expression to astronomers ... day, which she analyzed by hand, because she was (and is) a beast. A ... 're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... happened to leave a message on your machines or with your parents, feel free to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  cards. And even of the places that do, often, getting a card to work takes ... and had to get to the other, you went on an overpass. A footbridge ... could just drop by a sari-sari store by the corner and get a pack of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  By: get a head start on 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms), applied to daily ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point. So I've developed some go-to time-burners to get my mind on something

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to ... you can get a sense of what it was like[/caption] I examined the damage

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... $28 to make this a so much more dangerously awesome gift. ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound ... . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  'm low-key still busy. Next week I have two essays due, a short story to write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... them into the fire and have to start over. Sometimes we get creative. We started roasted hot dogs in a very familiar shape recognizable by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  A collaborative post by guest blogger Jessica Quaye '20 and Caroline ... but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .    Peter started by explaining how he had to postpone a number of ... meditative to get the soil in your hands and I like that a lot,” Peter said ... answered by telling us that he had first come to MIT wanting to be a film

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  ended up getting a Beta Fish. Pictures I managed to snap anyway ... . We went to PetCo by the CambridgeSide Galleria. (The Galleria is the closest mall to campus; a free shuttle leaves from Kendall square about

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  was so in love with this series as a kid. we are going to pretend this ... years of my life to a novel I didn’t believe in. [annotation note="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  at 9am Get ready for the day and eat a protein bar Leave the DPhi ... 10am-ish Work out from 10:30-12 Get lunch from 12-1 Go to class ... . Get ready for bed and sleep by 1am. Repeat. There are definitely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  are no good analogies to real life. Sometimes you get stuck rereading a ... is “The Wrong Way to Treat Child Geniuses” by Jordan Ellenberg, a ... want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and ... possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... believed that getting into a dream college was a binary decision. I believed

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... was to write a letter reflecting on what we had learned, and I decided ... finish revising my novel by October, so we could send my manuscript out to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... crazy! Needless to say, this generated a lot of comments, so I decided to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005