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• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I ... friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  confused you into thinking that I am. Nope, I'm just a sophomore that's going to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... a sophomore now. Yes, I haven't heard that term since high school

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building ... cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and ... additionally contains enemies, a health meter, and additional features and items

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason ... online event hosted by the famous Mollie (a.k.a. molliebatmit), a 2006

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A Part III blog. _________________________________ Q: I got a question

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... internet use at 3a.m. every night. But what about after you graduate and ... things. I present to you as a case study the company LiveScribe. So this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light. Life after it happens is at least semi-solid enough to serve on a plate for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  ... ...the first thing you think about is a certain protein used in recombinant ... !: Premed Boulevard presents With One Test With one test, I kissed the A ... When I take a test, you'll give me a A Yes, with one test I am so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  all the physics I learned freshman/sophomore year, starting a week ago ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken ... , doing well on these GREs is more a matter of pride than anything else

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted ... a formality, a trivial remnant of the antiquated American Dream that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... ha! Well, this entry is a bit premature. Many people are still in

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  is a record number. With so many excellent applicants this year, it ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering (Course 2A). After spending a summer traveling with friends and working at ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for ... walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a ... year universities and two year junior/community colleges. There were a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008