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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... on Tuesday, we spent the first day driving along the Golden Circle, a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  entry by Elaine L. '18 This entry was originally published on Elaine's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can be ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Close up shot of Pluto. (Image Credit: NASA) On Jan 19, 2006, the New ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City ... . Professor Richard Binzel - MIT EAPS professor. Co-investigator on the New

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i ... ; those things—they’re words on your laptop monitor, or on your phone. us EC

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... (perhaps the CPW Welcome/Faculty Speaker event on Friday morning and the Closing Variety Show on Saturday evening) but mostly I hope you will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... future application and someone else's on balancing scales. The cynical ... of my peers in AP courses rendered decisions on relative competence on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  academic way of saying "homework", and the answer to what you'll be doing on a Thursday night. Generally speaking, there aren't many questions on a ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on Monday, January 3rd. However, with the RA ... common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on to our suitcases. I probably should’ve put my suitcase on the luggage

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3,000+ teams in 12 countries worldwide. The ... alliances of three robots each compete against each other on a small, enclosed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on ... -time questions. There are many answers already here on the site -- for example ... you can click "submit" on your application any time on January 1 or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... females have pleasant dreams on this vehicle, but I try to imagine that ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  Currently, the most emailed article on boston.com is this piece on ... video. Take a look... MIT students take on some furry roommates By ... school officials say they instituted as a compromise while cracking down on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... that happen and that you could either ignore and go on as you did before ... cause he's always wanted a black cat and I had my eye on the little black

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  design project which is due on Thursday (I actually still don't know what ... classes which are both due on Friday. Yes, the weeks before Spring Break ... basically help build Athena. They were called the Watchmakers, based on a book

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

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... lot of it. =) This schedule was on the wall near the front entrance of ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , you know that I have 6.003: Signals and Systems on Junior/Senior P ... -minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like Optimus Prime can be a truck or a robot depending on what he needs to do, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  the truth was that she was considered a world authority on lots of ... miserable, because no one there respected her. In fact, Rosalind caught on to ... claimed that the phosphates of the DNA chains should be located on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  Yo, some people had some questions on the last entry and I answered ... schedule. Oh, I'm not Jewish. My sophomore year they called me up on my ... and I'd rather they took me off their calling list from now on. They

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  research focuses on mutual fund investments in international markets ... and a course on Investment Banking and Going Public. She has been named ... microstructure. She has authored numerous articles on initial public offerings in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005