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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  the sun is coming up. Tomorrow after moving my things back to EC, I ... time for all. I think the pressure of the impending summer's end is what ... : Really seeing the city. I guess if I had to pick, I certainly do regret not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  already, right?" We evaluate the applications on a rolling basis: that is to ... this, so it is not held against you). It does not matter on what date your application is read; all applications are read in the same way with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  you mean this is the end?” Three words friends: Large. Hadron. Collider ... 's the largest single object ever built. Only thing you can't see is the ... , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the ... looks like a very flat baby sloth is hugging the underside of your chin ... blonder than the hair on my head. I do not know why this happens, but my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... not be disadvantaged if recommenders submit their recommendations
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  units another; I'm not sure what the "average" number is, but I suspect ... . Why would you do that? Well, the not-practical reason is that a lot of ... right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Center. (Secondary factoid: The primary factoid does not indicate that I ... breakdown of my blog audience is not verified by real statistics. It does ... sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... MIT’s location is urban, but not describe the intimate atmosphere of ... either. I still have not unearthed a pattern in the numbering of its

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  . The music video is also very fun to watch. I think the love songs on this album are all really good. Someone said that Reputation is not an ... ME! but I personally don't dislike them. Probably not the best, but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  it was my actual self, and not the Ideal MIT Student, who would be ... contract! The picture is from the French book Les Pratiques de L'Écrit Dans Les Abbayes Cisterciennes, and the caption in French is describing the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  all the evils of MIT is risky.   1) MIT Confessions clever ... ; 2) isawyou  isawyou is not as prolific as it once was, and today it ... . Photos are 100% not mine."   at the bottom of pandora's box, after

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  's subtitle ("And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon") is completely inappropriate, I will be very impressed ... eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  that you may not be familiar with is called the "Rotational Energy" and ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  . “Yikesey” is the word I’d use to describe them. Although we managed to not ... weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... . The official Salem visitor’s guide did not reflect my priorities. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... 't get anything out of it. On the other hand, The Hobbit is pretty ... my arms. Woah. There are six of us in this class, and it is not for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  craziness of the semester is already over, that I have completed my finals and ... had a realization the other day that Cambridge is my home. I will always ... ever my parents are, but my home right now is definitely MIT. I’m not

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010