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• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... price to pay to get to meet Lincoln, you know?   Also, the ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck ... can prove who you are to other computers on the network, and your ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of ... .004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  would do tomorrow. We agreed upon getting up around 8:15 (blasphemy!) to ... 2 AM, and I headed back to McCormick to get some sleep. The next day, Judy, Kevin, and I met up in Next House to get waffles. Kevin went a

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as ... catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the ... that will help you develop your skills, amaze your future employers (our
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  than once, you start to shed your ego entirely. when we practiced moving ... from Nonconvex Optimization to "dance like you're a rock falling off a ... freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to ... help. Isn't that weird? Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to tell ... they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  Adelaide and when I told her, "Hey, I'm about to get to Mass Ave, I'm at ... 's weird to realize how easily you can immerse yourself in something, and not ... time to sleep lately, let alone blog, but I just thought I'd give a quick

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by inserting beneficial DNA into the nucleus of a cell. The tough part is getting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  have thought waking up before 7 AM could be nice. The morning used to be a stressful rush to get to school on time for first period. Here, each ... naturally wake up very early. I know, it's a nice "problem" to have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  had to audition to get in) who can actually sight read pretty well, he ... [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!

  

  I are engaged, and we're planning to be married in September or October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of Science -- because what better place is there for two MIT grads to have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at ... (you'll see what I mean once you get to college).   I am just

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance ... conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021