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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  on their way to 3.091, professor of which is reportedly "The Man". The ... . 12:57 PM: Plans to take it to the next level foiled by professor ... note to get those wheelie shoes prepubescent boys wear. 10:00 AM: Stand

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  , there are very often ways to change that. The second thing is that I ... that go the other way. First of all, your first semester is Pass ... going to be dissapointed. Because the reason I dropped physics is... I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  /Astro and switched to Physics (which was, by the way, as simple as filling out ... 't get to be Tim the Beaver, which cut me pretty deep. I haven't updated ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... coordinating the floorplans. They tend to be named by the first hackers who find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  . AOL Radio is on the background, tuned to the Top 40 station. The desk ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon ... , and felt an overwhelming urge to laugh...just laugh. The test is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I ... nonfiction book, doesn’t get you hooked as the others do – that it doesn’t tell ... I let my guard down, but I was more susceptible to the book’s contents

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  ways in the snow to get to the Institute back then. After a stint in ... ), but there are no standard answers about the best way to tell a story. I ... visual ways to get across the energy and fun of doing science gave me yet a

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... done whatever needs getting done. The drive to work to the bone has only ... the ways we plan to do more. We aren’t aligned on every particular but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... design stuff. Then I run back to the dorm, finish my psets and study for my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know ... . The signal is, "I'm (by one measure) a talented math student." Your ... hit." The first law is true, the second is a construct of your

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... With 5 days until the May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making ... you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  engineering,” I said. I had decided this was a good way to help the environment ... other option.  My cousin is studying to be a lawyer. There are other ways ... , not unkindly. “Don’t listen to me.” # The thing is, I was considering

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken ... influenced by the majority votes. I don’t intend to delve into my specific and ... so on, and so on, until the final result is communicated to you, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... into the bookstore, getting a refund at the end of the year equal to 7 ... to the important stuff. The Coop at MIT is one of my favorite stores

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  , a TA is hovering around Google Earth on the side trying to show us ... my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that ... the mechanism of these reactions. The idea is to extract how self

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  see waiting there for me. My hope is to feel the same way as an incoming ... , beating up on myself just makes things worse. Sometimes the best thing to do ... discouraged. And sometimes, the best thing I can do for myself is have enough

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  obviously don't have the scores yet to write down in your application. This is ... documents from the applicant. The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the ... usually should be sufficient. If your essay is greater than the word limit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  all the way up to Boston. You'll still get in great shape, you'll still ... 've come to the following conclusion: running the Boston Marathon bandit is a ... year. Maybe your friends have promised to take the bus out to Wellesley

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  sure you're in the right place?" Me: ... Proctor: "Is 8.012 even in this ... the early universe to him. If that didn’t blow your mind, maybe this ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011