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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  Space users* are lower than bloggers on the ladder of internet scum, so ... decided to give up on this post is because I knew these words of advice ... student) and I actually bought these on separate occasions, and I think I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  these lines on top of each other:Notice that when we read the colors of ... reversed on the right. There’s also the same number of swaps, and they both ... directly opposite each other, on the surface of the zonotope. We can count

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I ... . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... ’re on. At this point in the application cycle, most of what you’ve done

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I ... , being unable to make good on all of the dreams I had chosen for myself. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  few weeks since career fair ended). Many of us can't wait to dig in on ... starts. The moves on display are cross-cultural, a tangle of African pop ... 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms) and I have an interesting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2019 are now available at > > > decisions ... and Notes Form. Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... awesome, so go read it! Secondly: Some of you may have read my blog post ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as ... wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

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

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  an entry for you guys on one of many summer opportunities for you guys ... cost? A summer at Interphase will set you back a total of Nada! On the ... , but hey, don’t judge!). On top of free housing, you get a little plastic

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  this photo of the sun rising over Llanganuco Valley in Peru. On Wednesday, after the hour by the Charles, I sat on the floor of my room with two ... (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  transformations on top of this weird spiral?    Much less likely. With enough ... of endless confusion). While my excursion on Thursday was primarily ... ’M ON NETFLIX It’s finals week. On Monday I have two exams back

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture. Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... a method of producing charcoal bricks out of natural waste materials

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  exams and/or stuffed on a bus or the back seat of the car on the never ... Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the schools that sent you a "fat packet". Regardless of where you were admitted

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... 40 minutes late. It's kind of disconcerting to wake up on a bus in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... normal size on Monday night. Before we even got our baggage out of baggage ... a good idea to build a city on hundreds of low-lying interconnected

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ,000+ minutes and >25% of my listening time on his books. 16 in total. Finished ... thoughts in my head. I don’t remember 70% of the books on this list. I couldn ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  embarks on this journey: We see their reality of both strength and pain ... couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... . This gave me a final score of 220. Based on their point allocations, MIT ... most people would probably rely on data. MIT's calculation of 90% of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020