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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... 'm here to do is tell you about life at MIT. Selection's all over and the fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  sit in the front page of SnowDays, you can watch the most recent ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... -dance communication-thingy/self-procreation/photosynthesis ritual to call in the alien

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  , meaning it goes from very small to 15.5' in a snap of the fingers. *snap ... noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... pretty much devoured our time, not to mention we were also trying to get to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  aimed to capture the central role that food has in our lives and ... ’s incredibly rewarding to hold the finished product in your hands. The whole ... the wonders of celery. In the meantime, be sure to check out our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  up in the glittering sky with bugs chirping in my ear, to imagine that ... most of my SSPeople in person, but that’s not to say they’re gone. We ... of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In

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

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  big, expensive 3D Printer ... in this scary room: This is the ... told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  head alumni interviewer in the Birmingham area. Dr. Fleisig is the Smith ... Monday's off-day to go see Dr. Glen Fleisig and the staff at ASMI in ... practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to ... . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as ... to the next level.
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  math kind, not the kind that President Lincoln lived in, which are much ... for my UROP supervisor to finish his phone call. In the meantime ... resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  marvel that was the trapeze artist: It's hard to tell in this photo, but ... ready to live in paradise for a while. As important CPW is for prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... aristocracy vacationing in the south of France coming to mind. But during my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  (using paper clips to secure the roadway to the supports in the water), but ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... the first day of GEL. The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... Corridor. I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without ... director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/math.CO/0507456, he is in the process of ... interested him the most (and seemed possible to solve), he took it back to his ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  - we want to hear you and hear what CPW is like for you and the friends ... Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five ... piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in ... left to be sad. maybe the situation is just making me distant from ... stepping foot in it. where are all of the deep, heart-to-heart conversations

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in addition to your GIRs and the classes in your majors, you'd have to take 30

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  interesting, to say the least. Orgo is notorious for being slightly less fun ... , Dr. Berkowski, is fantastic. The other day in lecture she put up the ... want to be an admissions blogger! (My answer to the aardvark question is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007