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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... efforts at MIT, and TESS is going to revolutionize our big-picture of these ... "goldilocks zone" - not too close to the star and hot, not too far away and cold

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete ... sprained me knee bringing around a blanket and asking strangers to join ... and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel ... is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to ... out to New Hampshire to do this? Wouldn’t it have been a lot warmer and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  , who has spent much of her August sitting on my couch and assigning ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , between storms, the skies stay clear and the temperature returns to one ... freshman fall, when I kept waiting and waiting for the snow to come. October ... is much more wet, and walking through the snow is much worse than

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  was way too much to handle, especially because my course load was so ... understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT ... , and I figured some of you might be wondering what I'm up to the summer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  bad tendency to stick out, making it look prickly and gross. a few days ... of November, and you justify it to yourself any way you can. "It ... A thug A lumberjack.But it just wasn't meant to be, and as you shear

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... Goldberg-type inventions that MIT students make to complete mundane tasks and ... emulated NES games, and hooked it up to speakers in the bathroom. He then put

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  in June, July, and September). 3. BUT you'd have to figure that it ... Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and I recently discovered that they also happen to be getting married on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be ... peace, an outlet to make myself feel whole and sane. I’m excited to ... above suggests, I’m starting my second year here at MIT. And that feels

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in ... stands for "Interactive Introduction to the Institute," and it showcases ... here] homepage" and dig around the individual sites to find the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  've learned about how to recruit minority students. Much to my surprise it was a tough sell. I thought that all I had to do was to show up and tell ... . When she came to visit and saw cows on campus, you can imagine her

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... "Q.E.D." and then went back to kissing me. So... Q.E.D. (Cue laughter ... here, post 'em and I'll, er, ask my sources. More episodes to follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stuff you see in sci-fi movies and expect to learn at MIT (but never do ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... quantum sensors out of lasers and stuff, and it is exactly what I need to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  allowed me to live at home. For this summer, it was more economical and practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have ... /sororities/independent living groups tend to have much lower housing prices, averaging about $1500

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , the pledge class of ‘92 getting hauled to jail by Boston police, and ... , desperately trying to Courseroad and reorganize my junior year, when I received ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  the lab to ask us questions and get to know us. 2.004- Dynamics and ... requirements. We learn how to model, analyze, and control systems. Control ... , proceeded to forget her name, and then called her “Lauren” for the next hour

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  , and also completed several assignments equivalent to a normal problem ... but no input :)) Once, a TA, god bless his soul, said to me, I don ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007