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• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  of the room in order for us to calculate the percent rebound, relating ... Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... 's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  the calculations to solve the following physics problem: how fast would ... been waiting for a rainy day to wear them, and today was the day: it came ... through the rain parallel to an indoor hallway I could have used to keep

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think ... time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As ... that, I headed over to the floor lounge to play Super Mario Kart with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could ... .k.a. "Slugfest") hall in the East Campus dorm. According to the Slugfest wiki

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven ... and hours to various software and machines and spray paint and glue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class because I've been able to learn more about the force distributions in different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... talented musicians on campus lay down their calculators, their voltmeters

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... afford to treat myself to quality relaxation time, so I spend half an hour

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  -of-the-envelope calculations to determine to what temperature the chocolate had to be heated in ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to ... back, for 5.07: Biological Chemistry. There's something to be said for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... about these things is not by forcing myself to think of them — they’re just things that happen to be more on the mind lately

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real ... ), that was supposed to bring a quarter inch of ice. But I made it here

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  : the best experts in the world in their respective fields come to our ... and up-to-date yet intro-level overviews of topics in the field of ... back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... herder, and come up with convoluted algorithms that calculate your chances ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal ... that police say involved butyl alcohol and compressed air. According to ... 13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely ... did not have enough time for everything I wanted to do this past

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... referring to those who are inclined to wave red-and-black flags rising up and ... , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  clowned on for using a TI-84 to calculate each person’s portion. Which, I ... ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  ) prior to Monday, I was under the legal lottery ticket purchase age, (2 ... 's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009