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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... , people popped their heads out of their offices and labs to see this special ... perfectly positioned to shine through the narrow opening between the heel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many ... yesterday the first day of spring. I was promptly informed that I would soon ... 's warm now, and that's all that matters. I'm going to go outside to read or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who ... during a particularly stressful spoke of the admissions cycle. You guys rock - BIG thanks. Second, there have been a bunch of questions about

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... days, followed by several weeks of solidifying the class, selecting the ... long time, but I assure you, it is better not to rush such important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on ... industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... of my parents had raised chickens before coming to America, so the ... sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog ... tedious but easy task- it took me several hours to finish all of the updates to my set design blog (don't read it too closely- the last half of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  changes daily), adventure I had taken into a new area of Boston, or just to ... , we headed to Quincy Market in the heart of Boston, where I had been ... -campus and having too little of time to check them all off the list. We ate

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... What sets MIT's East Campus apart from other dorms of the college type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  'm going to mix it up a bit, and give people's living groups instead of ... I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old, and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  decision applications to college, and, for many of my senior friends ... resolved to spend every waking hour of my weekend either studying for my ... release of Early Action decisions, we aren't allowed to blog on Saturday or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  lead to the advancement of quantum computing, which could aid scientists ... , Boris Alexeev proved a theorem related to the theory of automata, the mathematical basis for the field of pattern matching. Boris worked to determine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  classes since the first semester of senior year, and to be honest, my high ... and I will come back at night to the caretaker of the apartment ... started formulating a "draft" of what I was going to say (which resembled

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  difficult to choose MIT. But lately, I dawdle. My calendar is full of ... lately, it occurred to me that if I had started my first year of college ... i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about ... one huge part of this independence is being able to say, “Hey, MIT, you ... living their lives, and to remember there’s a world outside of psets and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating to the Rutherford model of the atom. You should have seen the way the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am ... becoming a doctor, I wanted to get a little insight into the pharma aspect of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  music elements to jazz--or vice versa, depending on your point of view. I ... was in the presence of a true artist. He wasn't there to busk or beg, or ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009