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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  section by accident I marched up to him and said "Hello, my section did not ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl ... Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting ... , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be ... digging this well. For those of you to lazy to read the other blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  to us, and maybe something we’d even want to major in. Fast forward to getting accepted to MIT. We were beyond shocked and ecstatic. We Felt All ... scoured Activities Midway for art-related clubs, and we went to the CMS and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... I went to station 8, which was the station for normal chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Fast Food Cooking for yourself (*gasp*) Dumpsters, free food mailing ... once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... “adulthood” that I am actively trying to avoid. However, I still must fend for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  portion of the results during the contest. to get full points for a problem ... ’re going to get. i got the small data right for the first two problems, and i ... requested for financial assistance. both were approved. it was a relief to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  faculty and students to help out and/or co-lead and welcome ideas for new ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  work and no play. Let’s just say there are some interesting ways to get ... treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... . From novices who are just getting started to experienced people looking ... to taking for-credit classes, you can do for-credit practicum work with

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... ="Proving things to myself, I think"]reasons,[/annotation] silly as they were, for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  lawsuits as long as they respond to requests for takedown by copyright ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... , and YouTube, and Wikipedia, and, for that matter, MIT Admissions) by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  same values, was quite different from the MIT I would come to know (for ... school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few years after I came to MIT. He was a great resource for me during the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting ... fast reader -- most books take me just a few hours to read. But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  . This was nice to meet new people but also definitely exhausting for me ... , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024