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• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  ) and we walked through a narrow corridor to get to Clam, from where we ... MIT. I held fun, but brief, conversations with Mariia trying to get to ... stay the latest at Random. At first, we just told him to crash here and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  :00 → Second UROP meeting! Same place, different project. For this one, I get to ... ). I finally get to use the 47 million Harvard/MIT/Boston Public library ... 10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... 't bring my Source of Truth to the exam, I like to use the quiz-recall method ... opposed to memorizing everything. For me, it's all about getting enough

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... to get something. When I turned around to return to the building, I saw ... remember today for the people who didn't get to have a phone call like mine

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in quantity. Commentary: WE GET TO MAKE YO-YOS IN THIS CLASS. And the professor ... happening lately. I get an invitation to interview at a school. I confirm. In

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The ... , since you only get to submit this form ONCE, this causes problems. So what we really want is to get the MYR as soon as possible when your grades

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  extent, it doesn't matter. If you're good enough to get into MIT, you're probably good enough to get into other great schools too, and ... CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  questions. How long does IAP last? And do you only get to do one activity ... short hours after the official kickoff to get instruction in driving the ... I'm going to do things backwards today, and start with... Responses

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand ... , describing what they've left where, and people scurry to claim it and carry it

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a ... to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease. Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions ... such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  assume that you'll get pretty good midyear 12th grades. If we need them to ... my chances of getting in is close to 0 if I were an International Asian ... tomorrow (Friday). user78 wrote, "I'm finally going to get my decision by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  bookmark the videos I like to my dance folder, which gets so long that I have ... method I've gotten used to after many years of dancing, so it might not be ... YouTube to practice dancing seemed like my best bet. as said in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  in shape year round. I never have to worry about voluntarily getting to ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... decided not to continue playing their competitive sports after high school

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to ... whatsoever. According to the National Weather Service, we had nearly record ... . (And if you haven't done so yet, please read Ben's latest entry and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more: schedule] 800+ students & alums came to Kresge Auditorium last night to ... admissions [read more: Bloomberg] The latest Harvard Business Review has a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played ... my vacation photos. In this case, getting the right answer took two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005