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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little ... DID YOU KNOW? Even if you want to boil water really quickly, don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  managed to run four miles, throw together a tofu-tomato-mushroom salad, get ... . Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . When I get back to my room, I realize that only an hour has passed. I ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too ... facts, but you get the idea. I want to tell you about Paul, because Paul

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  to ROCK. I hope you are prepared. =) Also, I found this article today ... Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain ... Ability I'm so mature, I know. Anyway, I've got to run, Alicia, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  , we strongly encourage you to register by then anyway, but will accept ... where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ... -depth description, you should check out these longer articles from the Boston Globe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... join a special program to study in France and get a side of buttery ... why? To get into MIT? The truth is that the algorithm for college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  article! We’ll be going back to New York in the beginning of June for more ... ’s typical to neglect your appearance after working on a problem set until 4 am ... day in lab. So you may be surprised to hear that 2 MIT students, Alia

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by ... when it is in fact only mid-range cheap.  I get to my room. I’m allergic ... ’t flatter.  All day I am sniffly, and when I get back to my room I cannot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  friends and family loved  getting to see what I was up to, so I just ... hanging out with my friends. Four years is going to fly by, and you ... I talked with MIT undergrads who make YouTube videos! Read on to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience ... . They last about a week, and can make it painful to eat or speak. Their

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... ="aligncenter" width="768"] Even Google's AI gets it wrong! However, I should note that ... I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  .01 forces you to really get what's going on, a quick scouring of the formula ... hoped to get a deeper understanding of metals so that we could further ... Google Earth Elevations we figured there had to be a better way

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  getting 6 hours of sleep... by senior year, I was getting to bed before 1 AM ... friends, you're likely to finish the movie and the pizza and get into a ... CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers-Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  -tower-indoor-balcony-thing that you climb up an actual ladder to get to!!! My desk, where I ... (think, the Harry Potter Chapter written by an AI) to write the code for ... to implement recursion entirely correctly by myself, or at least not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  /UROPS, take fun classes, etc."]IAP[/annotation] passing by with me struggling to ... psets “light” or “slight work” before getting absolutely bodied by said ... , to get a jumpstart on the curriculum, to finally fix their less

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  statements by department heads to affirm commitments to student health ... , a cover letter by Reif himself. Why had MIT gone to such lengths to ... survey responses by identity group (e.g. race, gender, sexuality) and to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016