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• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... time at all, I could bang out essays that I was proud of, and loved

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my ... . Although I am determined not to write much on the subject of MIT’s difficulty ... , occasionally, on NPR blaring through a $6 radio. At MIT, the pace of life is much

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... danced like animals in the middle of the dance floor. but times have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... that you can describe yourself in terms of probabilities. If my electrons can be unsure of where they are, then so can I! Unlike my electrons

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  their talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Nancy Kanwisher received her Bachelor Of Science in Course 7 (Biology) from MIT in ... from MIT, in 1986. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Brain &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects, the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... of episode 1 is all you need to be hooked on. Trailer: https ... (on ep7 of s2) Concepts/Themes: Reality, Life, Death, Dreams, Greek

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... savory parts of my memory, I can recall those nights of crying to my mom on ... only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . 2. 2. Record-Breaking: On the right of our suite-board you will see a ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  soft-on-the-inside, crusty-on-the-outside loaf of peasant bread ... characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... , when my mind's off finals. That way, I can focus totally on your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the projects I've been working on at my UROP for the past two years. So first ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

    On Friday, I'd had it. I was coming off of one of those weeks ... precision (5 birds were perfectly piled up on top of each other) but ... finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... we needed to go pick up, so on top of having a lot of responsibility ... military leaders. It certainly hasn't been easy, especially on top of

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now ... same as any higher score she could receive on the retest. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  Pig...no joke :^) So as of yet, you have not been introduced to my best ... getting our fill of food, we went to the Cincinnati Reds game where they actually won a game for once. Highlight of the Game: When the mascot did the

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  rest of the communications team here), and so on. Hopefully it will be an ... arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  released on March 14 -- Pi Day. This year, decisions are being released at 9 ... students will receive information on their financial aid package and Campus ... year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want ... week. Thankfully my tests are spread out, allowing me to focus on one ... turn on my music and just nap in my bed, forgetting about how difficult

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008