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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  for riding on the T. Their product has received the support of both the ... The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are two solutions. Here’s a huge hint, in black text on black background, so

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett '11, were working on something awesome ... and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... Schmill Dean of Admssions Now is no time to despair! Lucky for us, we

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  reschedule exams (like my exam on Friday potentially), the Dean of Student Life ... Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  reagents. With the use of the special Parafilm M dispenser, which are sized ... conveniently cut off uniform sized strips or squares of 2" (50.8 mm) length. The thickness of all Parafilm products is 0.005 (127 um) and although we are often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... 'll see that violent crime on campus is basically unheard of. Expensive ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  was at the far end of the infinite on the third floor of Building 8. So, along with Javier '08, I got to the far end of the infinite around 4:02 PM ... seemed to elude most of the latecomers who showed up on the third floor at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... On Friday, my friend Weywey '06 (Course 2: Mechanical Engineering ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  and sunny, and we got started right away on one of the innertube rides ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... required reading. In short, lots going on as we race toward the mailing of ... On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  i've started collecting cds. i think part of this has come from ... the weight of. there's a distinct lack of permanence when it comes to accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  , so I’ll start with the how. On the morning of Saturday, September 12th ... book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... this, I’ll be in Moscow, stopping over for a few days on my way to one of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  was on a huge social high. I was let loose in a candy shop of ... I relied on aren't the same any more. The first couple weeks of the ... , especially on academics and atypical hobbies that didn't revolve around the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  's time to move on to the next segment of this story . . . As many of you ... to be more active on campus than any of the other Asian cultural ... homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  ) every day. The love songs on this album called Lover are, of course, all ... AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and ... of the time, when the spotlight isn’t on them, they are just still

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... new lesson learned, the new insight gained comes on the heels of overt ... letter of admission and screaming to stepping foot on campus for the first

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014