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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  to further contribute to that by leaving only a very small number of ... other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... committed to admitting no more than one-third of our class during early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  hand, is getting slapped around by the fire gods as if it was nothing ... myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  harnesses and had to wear helmets. I didn't manage to get a good picture of a rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to ... wood. This year, some of our wooden structures were connected by bridges

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of ... and make sure to get outside during the nice days. There are some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  time getting the hang of simple things that were easy to make and tasted ... allow me to actually get groceries regularly. So, I told myself that I ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  of taking operating systems. by tuesday, i knew i wanted to [annotation ... last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  began to make such an awesome toy. Well, we began the design process by ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  it. Then one day, Robert happened to be in Chinatown and was walking by ... front. The tablet itself is connected by USB to an Arduino, and the ... vend your boba for you! Lambda Tea plans to expand beyond the grounds of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... ’s observations on climbing plants and the similarity of their strategies to those of climbing animals. There are also new recipes for poisons, thoughts

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  Santaluces valedictorian headed to MIT, career in medicine By Kathi ... each year to an outstanding local student by the Morikami Museum in ... pneumonia figured out by then." He said he wants to contribute to the field of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have ... bent, so grows the tree’. Teach small kids how to do things, and by the ... reached out to many people at MIT to get advice--from Professor Hazel Sive

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he ... trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Decisions Details for retrieving your EA admissions decision on Monday evening.

  

  sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... information to locate you in our system and reset your password within a few ... MIT account, make sure to create one so you can find out your admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  inability to engineer the DNA in yeast so that I could create yeast strains by ... can get to having an all-encompassing definition of the basic unit of ... biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... I hadn't considered how to get them over my butt. Awkward. I sat ... (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... and jujutsu sorcery. Or, you can play Celeste and pay your respects to

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  ’s all about feeding your curiosity and fundamentally learning to learn. As ... womb can get an opportunity to do research. Here, passion replaces pomp ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011