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• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  's World War II, and we're trying to sneak into Germany from France by ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  never going to end. It seemed like all my midterms were clustering on the ... belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has ... Analysis class. Both of them are extremely interesting to me, but they are my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  seem to make it back with some sort of lame and totally transparent ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... forget to blog that last one? My bad, guys), but I don't think this time

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at ... like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I

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

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a while and today I finally remembered to pack my camera. I’ll preface this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good ... due Friday Fill out a form. Get a free bio minor. But do it by Friday. :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  to ride an hour on the Orange Line. You'll be bombarded by these ... , probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... this very special evening, I decided to dress up so I could walk straight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  , but I got convinced to stay by my FPOPmates and I'm really glad that I ... talks in Kresge, to the grand finale which included a huge migration by ... MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  post by discussing the future I imagine for myself and how I want to get ... It seems to me that we swath an imaginary future world in pretty ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  working hard to finalize plans for the ~500 events we're going to cram into ... ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  to understand some blob by knowing the shadows of the blob. Bam-- that ... between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... pies, piedentified (joke by Irina’s boyfriend Alex). The top row is ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun ... dominos: MIT Tech TVorganized, and voiced, by Snively. But the Infinite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  Congratulations on being accepted to MIT! You're amazing! And your hair looks especially good today! Did you do something new to it? Nope ... dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about ... to take pictures of baggage claim, if you're into that kind of thing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... November. The ball was titled "As Time Goes By" and the theme was Casablanca

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  -Veronica Mars fans are quite confused by now, I'm sure). Trying to figure out ... It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006