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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to ... out if you spill it on yourself. I spilled some... and decided to see if ... -- so it was totally worth the experiment. But damn, it hurt.) On to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  . At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of ... ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  item is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it ... ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... . Good default usernames are your last name (if it is fairly unique and 8

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... the weekend, I was pretty sure that it would be fun to just improvise ... moment on campus… and I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to say: Mission

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... choice anyway, because it was exactly what I really wanted but was not confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... , that it seems as if we are all part of the progress. When there is an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team ... written by them, and they'll be writing next year's hunt too, so it should

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  , figure out what you want to say, and then figure out how to say it.   Conversation #2 (assuming there is an answer to my first question) Me: Does the ... .  How am I supposed to know what is most important? Me:  You decide what

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech's special issue on stress is anything to go by. (If you haven't read it yet ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... abbreviation for Reserve Officer Training Corps. It is a training program ... year to year: freshman year it’s learning, sophomore year it’s preparing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to graduate school; it is not a second chance at being at MIT, but it ... change that i hope to see around me. part of it is simply just that my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  ever, ever, EVER refers to it as "Joisy." This is a Brooklyn accent, not ... experience here, and let me tell you- it is so, so, SO hard to keep up. That ... means that I am writing entries about what it's like to be an MIT student

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  in and out of downtown, but that’s it), so it was important to me to ... : it’s in Boston! (well technically Cambridge, but you know, still the “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  syndrome, but oh well. No amount of achievement is going to soothe that as ... , but I turned it into a source of motivation to make tenth grade better ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met later than us get engaged already. What happened to my Facebook feed? It ... year and it’s a good chance to see everybody before the semester begins

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism? Is it all an elaborate conspiracy, and have our thumbnail pictures ... balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  World Report rankings and is known globally for its world-class faculty ... ; Computer Science (EECS) is everywhere. Each year, EECS prepares hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is ... ="alignright" width="752"] Barker is under the big dome! It is well-lit and very cold ... . Whenever I go to do work, the lights are low, and everything is all dark and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to ... Curie, Paris). It explaines why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  hanging out with someone. Maybe I’m doing it to avoid the thoughts that I ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this post took way more effort than it normally would have. Anyway, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020