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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that ... , which ends with To be or not the choice seems clear enough but Hamlet ... I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... Snapple, cheered for the runners, and not-so-jokingly announced I would run the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  , Spammy, Spamalot, Spamtastic, or Spamalicious... if you're not into the whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ."]quotient of tea by the actual tea leaves[/annotation] is water or not.    ... it is an algorithms class, I would enjoy it more than 6.009.  In the ... time, I failed.    I had not been particularly enjoying the way 6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is ... . The Japanese cell phone is a fusion between a high-def digital camera, a ... described by its given name. 6. Tokyo is full of crows. Perhaps the residents

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  recognition is largely focused on the reputation of faculties that have not only ... school is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after all. Even as I ... in Victorian literature? Or in the history of Islamic architecture? Not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  does not make me the life of the party. One other class I’m taking is ... Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan. Not only does she love the riveting storylines and character development ... coming year is the Year of the Pig. So, as has become the tradition, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them ... their students can use additional assistance. Plus, Bebras' mascot is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  .(except this is where the analogy breaks down. Blinkers at the same time = awesome. Exams in the same week = not). Now I have my own theories on why ... the same time? That's how exams are here. Most of the time they're all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... students, and starting in March, the program is only open to admitted students Please note: host-matching is done by people, not by a computer (it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is ... Saturday. I am very psyched that Sam is planning to join the marching band ... the other team's affiliation, and I totally agree. Haha, I'm not sure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 ... , email us to let us know. Make sure your MIT ID is in the email ... your other recommendations, it is okay if the recommendation is processed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  , the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom ... not be ready for the September test date. So I blocked off IAP for some ... stretch of studying, is to sprawl out on the sofa and settle into some good

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Akhil '05 MEng '06, who is the only other person from my high school to ... world (insofar as graduate school is the real world, of course). And it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  . The report is not an indictment of MIT--rather, we should celebrate its ... proven competence, the average woman at MIT is less confident in her ... and artists, we have not yet managed to liberate women from the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  ’s incline... My foot was not the only thing there. I had not put anything ... desperation of a failed killer. The cockroach would not come out. I shone a ... “cockroach” would not improve my torment. I looked around the stall for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  ? "Army" by Ben Folds Five Great job, Jen '07! Jen is the president of the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and is majoring in Course 22: Nuclear Engineering. Jen is powerful. Do not mess with Jen. Last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006