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• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... , upperclassmen, fellow 17'ers, and new members. I wanted to make sure everyone was ... because for a moment I had almost began to take it all for granted. Wow

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

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  overcommitter and a workaholic to boot"]at once.[/annotation] I’d like to also ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together ... exposure to programming and Python. I was lucky enough to have spent a lot of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... . Since food happens to be one of the protagonists in this blog, here's a ... two dinners a week on average in addition to leftovers that could be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really ... years after my high school and worked for a year.can I apply to mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny ... every now and then he lends me a book to read about the philosophy of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... radiate? The thing spews out enough math to educate a third-world village

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  a pretty cool place to hang out. Especially in february. What you ... emitted by gases in distant parts of the galaxy to derive a rotation curve ... 'll make it. I'm writing my paper on the dynamical (SO(4) rotational group

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  more fun. 9.22 (A Clinical Approach to the Human Brain) - Learn how the ... that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... 've redistributed personnel throughout the rooms that make up the admissions office ... Engineering just posted a short video about Glenn and his time and contributions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  briefly considered asking the student office to make me a second ID so I ... 'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because ... ambitious scheme to stage a blog entry that would not only win a Pulitzer but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  to alignment, so even a tiny misalignment (e.g., from breathing too ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  to make it up there! But it was SO COLD. So although it took a ... way to the cabin to grab some food. There was a beautiful view on the ... galaxy. When we got to the GPS coordinates, we were all a bit confused and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always ... belonging to New York. What happened Tuesday? Having days off feels a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spy vs. Spy The former directors of the US and Saudi intelligence agencies speak at MIT.

  

  -Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States. The forum will be ... Center for International Studies. What makes the talk particularly ... service, the General Intelligence Directorate, from 1977 to 2001. Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk ... to Seven Eleven, the frequent walks to the Charles River or to a friend ... together and separate and lead to hidden treasures and displays: a lab with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a ... better matches for MIT, making them more likely to be admitted? Or do we ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads ... good at making stuff and so on. and i feel the need to be all these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... . Professor Wasserman went for a more mathematical approach to defend the merits ... sexy. And if that isn't convincing enough, look what happens to a human

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  't make you learn material any better.  Turning in a pset 24 hours late ... you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... thought after signing up for a 10 pm trip last Thursday to Wallace ... Students. Thanks to Sara '10's vice presidencing skillz, MIT SPS borrowed a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009