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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  specifically. But it's college and they say this is when you're supposed to ... to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  hang out/catch up 9:45 pm – ran home to get laptop and headed to campus ...   One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... would I see, where would i go, etc. I figured that people would want to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... the result. Very popular strategy on 6.042 exams. Known to result in ... : An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  how to eat better when you have to cook for yourself, but actually ... ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make your nightly pasta taste better? Well, tomorrow is your lucky day! Julie

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to ... away you are from a radio station, the more your signal-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... week, and then staying up really late on thursday night and going to ... -hour lecture on wednesdays with back-to-back classes beforehand seemed sort of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  .  These folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to ... - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... emailed me, "i cannot imagine how difficult comparing 17000 applicants

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  starting to be on the radar of people I knew. But there’s a pretty clear ... MIT education doesn’t simply open doors – it teaches you how to find ... and still go on to professional and personal success.

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... -100 and it was really just an incredible moment to see our school on the big ... On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  drug. And I want to learn how to make it. Last week we discussed the ... ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... you tried on at the store sometimes look awful when you get home. Also

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let ... campaign to feed and clothe the homeless. Even students on a budget are ... sharing similar stories helped me realize how we're all struggling. But more

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  now, I'm en route BOS -> SFO, on my way to Maker Faire Bay Area 2016 ... on. Hope to see some of you there! ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  . (Definition of MIT, #129: The ability to Taylor expand your states of ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees ... in Courage" Cast your vote now on the MIT Admissions Facebook page! ... One week from today -- on Monday, October 8 -- the Nobel Foundation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012