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• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Some languages do not effectively distinguish between ... , MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch ... wonder what that means. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I first came to MIT, I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but who ... rest of my life. So why not try to hedge my bets and try to do everything ... very easily and was running out of time to do the other things that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  , because their desserts are pretty great), but if you do live in any of them ... full meal will set you back about $5. You do, however, have to eat at the dining halls pretty often (about 50-60 meals/term should do it) in order to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  your EC, you should still do so! Your EC will still conduct an interview ... , you do have another option. If you will be visiting campus sometime this ... contacted your EC - whether you are applying early or regular - you should do

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... , Brian’s shrimp is on the left and Jason’s is on the right. Who do you think wins? (Granted…these pictures don’t really do them justice

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... to organize everything properly so that my postdoc can do a few final ... spend the rest of my life doing it; MIT is a pretty great place to be if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... equipment to keep track of LAPTOP The Pros: - Mobile - Lightweight - Can do ... primary mode of computing my freshman year kept me in my room to do work

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  Scottish band, beating even Franz Ferdinand. Now, you know I don't like to do ... up. I really do appreciate all your comments; they not only illuminate ... .02) or accelerated single-variable (18.01A) and see how you do; if you find

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Super Adventure Club In a little while, I'll be gone.

  

  recklessly complaining, but here goes: Today I had a to-do list of 23 things to do before Spring Break. Right now, I'm working on number 22: "Blog." And what am I doing for Spring Break? Well, I'm not heading east like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to ... 't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of ... element of all of us doing it to ourselves -- we're here because we secretly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  fourth most emailed story of the day -- maybe people really do care about ... Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... really do get what you pay for. My agenda for tomorrow: mostly reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... me to no end. Plus, while he's writing the paper, I'm doing his laundry. The things I do for that boy! You bet your bottom dollar he's being

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  pset all by myself. Doing psets alone is torture. For me, anyway. I know some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them. But I have no idea how they do it. Anyway, I had just reached the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  actually a very good case for an entry with the title "How to do everything wrong...", since he actually didn't do that much wrong. This is true. I ... to the entry I wrote about myself, and I actually did do quite a bit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen ... attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to ... you'd like to join the MURJ team to write News summaries or doing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn ... 't really money. Unluckily, I had left my MIT ID in my other pants. What to do ... gazed heavenward and opined, "Someday somebody will do a favor for my sons

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  friends, so clearly since I had the opportunity to do so this year, I ... one in trouble. if however, you can't do it yourself, maybe you wanna ... one thing left to do to finish celebrating my birthday, and that is to

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should ... can I do to help my chances? The best thing you can do is simply to stay

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  -to-date, but please recognize that processing can take 1-2 weeks. You do not need ... have that backlog into November. Do not worry. Ask away! Keshav asked ... just submit the transcript?" Matt '00 replies: You do not need to fill

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/test2.mp4"][/video] I knew there were things I could easily do ... else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... trip last summer was my first time doing “real” hiking, and this summer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022