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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... it to last a second in a department where everyone seems to be premed ... to be a doctor. I've been taking science classes purely out of interest

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya's already told you about 6C, but I'll bet it didn't feature a giant spider on a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  collections of squiggly pencil lines. I won't lie: I'm going to be spending a ... At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your ... poetry that tries to incorporate math always comes off as cringe.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the ... Hey, did a Red Sox game just start? The dorm just shook and it sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate ... ' stuff I want to tell you guys about (including a video of the Simmons ... what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a ... Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in a name mr. sushi - winner of the first annual name bryan's fish contest!

  

  In a close name contest between Groker and Mr. Sushi, Mr. Sushi edged out Groker in a 8 to 7 win, but remember we're all winners here. Katy, congratulations! I'll be in touch so you can redeem your prize.

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here ... interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most ... performing a birthday dirge, as opposed to a birthday song, where we stomp and ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  a lot of fun. Then, yesterday night Wong Fu Productions came to MIT ... , so I was super excited that I got a chance to meet them. Be sure to ... The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  more without working over time. The problem seems to be a lack of executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... better way to relax after a long week than a free a cappella concert by the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 ... who don't: the MIT class ring (a.k.a. Brass Rat) is not only one of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the ... week, and he was filling in. So after grabbing a bite to eat at

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... into a sophisticated machine designed to verify that they weren't size ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet