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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  can consider the scale to be logarithmic.) The first sign of impending ... these and pin them to my pillow. Else the misery of separation would be ... Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  people I’ve ever met, have continued to be amazing over the past few years ... , it would be SSP. Even apart from the community I’ve been gushing about ... The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  ...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really ... Physics, which, despite being the hardest class I ever took in my life, was ... sweep the entire competition, which would be pretty sweet, I think

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  afternoons. Then the next two weeks will be for us to work on our website, with ... properties beyond just being a collection of random variables!) The other ... up on the Wikipedia page for the MIT Mystery Hunt. And I remember being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  relatives in New York, where there will invariably be large amounts of cheek ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... Nalgene!", and "So the conch goes, 'Oh s***. I'm out of oxygen, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  thin plastic shatter, so did my heart. For I knew that to be the end of ... ="90221" /] Refraction cat wasn't intended to be a sticker, but Winnie was testing out the ... Instagram insights corroborate with the fact that our comics are being shared

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. The Institute is committed to
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing ... , Professor Strang would probably be right under the Taylor series guy, who I ... The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  " ~Selena Megha '25 (poster edited because the blogs are not supposed to be ... It's been 16 years since the last installment of Burton 1 Cribs, an ... 're Burton 1, the first floor of Burton Connor! We love the color blue, bones

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  the NSF. I'll be heading off to MIT this coming fall for grad school in ... In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in my year is ... CODING. Yeahhh - What the... I’ll be first to say that when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing

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

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic ... things in life than being in the most advanced sight-singing laboratory ... DID YOU KNOW? i^i = e^(-pi/2) Sorry for the lack of MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  like his extroverted self. Still, the perception exists. "People will ... major friend who wants to be the general manager of a sports team some day ... I thought you might enjoy the below blog by Professor Patrick Henry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  possible paths through the system are equally long), the photon will always ... may well be true and contribute to pigeon navigation, the coolest and ... I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around ... schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  it stops tempermental snowing in Boston, we’ll be skating into the city ... . And at some point after I graduate in June, I will skate across the U ... how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  the week.   A few tips: always be prepared to consume free ... meant to celebrate the plethora of free food to be found around campus ... … You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  .03, 8.02, and a hass class." hosed: adj the state of being exhausted ... loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  going to be a high school junior for the 2025-2026 school year, watch our ... the screen, college fairs are not meant to be stressful. They’re meant for learning. You’re not being judged by the admissions officers based

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025