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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and ... underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... other Cambridge, it’s an actual activity where you’re on a ... trying to stay on the boat, trying to find the bottom with my stick, and

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for ... ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... not go out until April. So, in a sense, I can understand the urge to not ... addition to the stress they can relieve, also can add a bit of stress to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the ... zonotope is a word, but wants to correct zonotopal to Zootopia."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two cakes and six cupcakes ...they may or may not resemble astronomical objects.

  

  I mentioned that I'm in the midst of a summer research program at the ... we made an epic cake for him, but didn't have pictures to show until now. Requisite background information: his research project is to model

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a ... make. 9. Make strained metaphors to a technical topic This is likely your ... satisfying to work on bigger problems than smaller ones," he replied. "Yeah

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  act was to place the flugelhorn on a stand that Matt lent me, which ... 're like me, a little overwhelmed) to learn that that we have, here on campus ... 't like feeling a vibrating reed on my tongue, I shuffled into the band room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to ... had a midterm on Wednesday. I committed to not bringing my laptop since ... got better on Friday. we went to a beachside brewery, battled some waves

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  , we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and ... that admissions offices may keep students on a wait list through the ... every student a decision as soon as we possibly can. We want students to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  were a great bonding experience. also, on the way back to our dorm, one ... to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  , which you spread on in a powder and then heat to melt into glass. It ... (where you and your advisor meet one-on-one occasionally to chat) or an ... webpages to list them all. You rank a shortlist and right before school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of ... . Basically, anything that is designed to quantify a process will not only be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  entry to comment on academics at Cambridge versus MIT. Note that my ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... they’re definitely a great way to connect with other people (hence the frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... use this "not and" door to do... well, a lot of things. Like adding ... these questions, we have to look at a sticking-together rock up close

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  to do a journal piece on it Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, where Superman ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT ... impressive to me. I'm so thankful to be a member of this community :) As I mentioned earlier, I hosted three events. The first was a Q&A(nkita) on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Contest Continues Contest wrapup.

  

  So in response to the death of Pluto as a planet, I am undertaking a campaign to revise the mnemonic and change history books with YOUR HELP Here are the finalists. Cast your vote for your favorite! A. My Very

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2006