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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide ... needs to be. For example, one problem describes the motion of a curveball towards home plate and asks you to describe the acceleration of one point on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4 ... brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a ... . It's a great way to escape the MIT bubble and get some (literal) fresh air. It snowed the night before, so we got to hike on as picture

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... prospective student said: Hi. Awesome post...Just thought I'd bring a typo to ... you go to MIT? What's bad about MIT? I responded, after taking a moment

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  all time, primarily because I was in New Hampshire this month on a bike ... sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for ... like to try new things, you can find a new activity that you love! The ... is a great chance to dive into some neat projects. I've been on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on ... the decisions people have to make and weigh when joining a sorority.) Now that that's all said, I think it's also a good time to announce a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  nationally-recognized stand-up comic Margaret Cho. Anyway, on to the Q & A ... . What I wanted to know was that a person with almost 10 As (9As and a B on ... scores on a case-by-case basis; let us know that you plan to take January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... I make a plan and here's what I've come up with. Discover New Music ... is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  to feel just a wee bit hungry. Eager to make new friends!   ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you ... . Watch the videos on how to unpack, wear and re-pack Tim, and guidelines on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  as a whole, question what impact I wanted to leave on the world. In ... . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... . I continued to follow all of his stuff after that. I was a bit too shy

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  math, we’d most likely spend close to 40 hours on 031. And spend close to 40 hours on 031 we did. This class CONSUMED our lives last semester ... to underline that we feel like we still never had a *deciding* moment

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  to leave Vegas early to get a head start on getting to Los Angeles ... on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  after you graduate?" Two years seems like a lifetime to me, although I can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... will probably take a little longer than Pangea did to separate. Whether

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  longer walks, so the other day i went on a walk to harvard. the streets ... to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a ... somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  a class of about 1,120 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... -- approximately 6% of applicants -- a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , you have to work out more than twice a week, so we all work out on our ... fortunate enough to get to ride on a KC-135 (a cool, military aerial refeuling ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  's a lion on his head. I also wanted to share the "Picower manifesto ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  collaborators asked if we could hop on a zoom call real quick to go through some ... , because while everyone is hanging out downstairs, you have to hop on a zoom ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  a blog that explains it step by step i figured id just cut to the part ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... presence lingers just a bit too long (it does, sometimes). i wanted to carve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021