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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the ... , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or ... Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right ... , I’m Lydia. I’m a sophomore. I’m in courses 6-7 and 18. I’m not in 7 ... , which I didn’t realize because I accidentally pre-registered for 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  's Market for breakfast, although in reality the mango was probably imported ... culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple ... , joining in for a cooperative effort. Also, The Coop is based off of a ... can't very well talk about the ENTIRE INTERNET because you'd be here for

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  when I walked in. Go ahead, laugh at me for overreacting and nearly ... In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  -credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan ... , metapuzzles, and some data about teams involved in the hunt. One of my absolute

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams ... coursework. The supervision work I talked about last week is only graded for ... ) Also have to orally defend your code in a short code interrogation. E

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... built a radio telescope that could fit 57 tennis courts. Bell was put in charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... looking for the right plug (THERE ARE SO MANY PLUGS AND CORDS IN THAT ROOM ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to hang out, do their psets, and meet other people in their course. A few months ago, I had the idea for doing this post, but didn't actually know

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  to NYC for a second-round job interview. The company put us up in the ... Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... , 9 weeks old (cared for and photographed by Kristen Y. '19) Drinks: I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... , Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... country in Idaho, Chris Peterson was witnessing a total solar eclipse

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  Action admission decisions are made in mid-March. You can still apply for ... Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  dress for a blizzard... If you're from a warm place and you are a ... though it's blizzarding -- I have the answer for you: fleece lined tights ... 've been able to explore the snow in my hideous moon boots to discover: 1

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing ... . This entry is a shameless plug for an event that Keri inspired me to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... students, approximately 70, on the waitlist for another few weeks until we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn or sermon, but it's not. It's the title for this post. It's quite fun ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008