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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  number 4: This is where it starts to get really good. I'm hoping the MIT ... picture above. Now, I know that it was really a trick having to do with ... side of the building and made it to the room before he did, undetected

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... characterization is always skillfully done. But nowhere is it done better than The ... happened to pick up this book from a store shelf and leaf through it, I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I ... . However, it is also true that some of the characteristics that frequently help us to determine if a student is a good match for MIT like creativity

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... "usually fail." So I switched to 7.012 (which isn't as fun, because it's not ... out there is called Lowell Court, and it's a small lawn that branches

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  already! Its SO good omg. The dough is flaky and buttery, but not in a gross ... specifically set aside a day when we were totally free to make it. Something that ... summer to make it. It was worth it! We ate the whole thing in the matter of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  to take cruft again and make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor. drop - (1) v. To de-register for a subject ... outside its design or published documentation; see kludge. (4) v. To explore

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  you admit from the waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We ... . Waitlists are uncertain, so it is always best to ensure your happiness no ... admitted 1419 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  is so worth it to take a few extra seconds and truly understand what ... Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  of ways, MIT is my adventure. I hope to share it with you :)   ... feeling it. In all honesty that is how most all of my writing goes. When it comes to writing I like to believe that it is reflective of how my mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  'm used to it again, and the magic is over, and i snap out of my trance ... : it's the mid-semester bubble rearing its ugly head. i want to succumb ... outside and it's dark. i need a break. i want to leave. on saturday, i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer ... two i's*. Or is it three? I can't add, remember? *Cross ... my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  , Codex, won the Hunt, which means that by tradition, it was our turn to ... economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to ... unpaid. Why would any sane person sacrifice a year this way? Part of it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  desk lamps. G. One more downside to Simmons is that since it’s the only ... all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn ... I packed my things, I managed to clear off what is supposed to be my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  is less important than your ability to master it. You may have other ... in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Akhil '05 MEng '06, who is the only other person from my high school to ... is going to law school -- she currently has acceptances from NYU and ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... like to support the band, you can download it from iTunes here. p.s. if ... If you're returning to our site today, you may have noticed that we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  how it works. The platform is called TaleBlazer, and it’s available to ... . As it happens, they turned out to be right. Listen to your elders, kids ... brain can successfully absorb, and learned what it was like to have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  before coming here. It is fantastic.) To me, it's really important to be ... Science and Engineering) and how small and close-knit it is (there are about ... ... I think we started early breakfast to make it to lecture on time

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  problem is way off. Despite the complexity, it fails to provide a reasonable ... developed long before language, which is why it’s easier for us to think ... find out how deep it is. It takes T = 4 seconds for the stone to drop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  "Tool" are seen floating in the waters. To "tool" a pset is to work on it and get it done while to "punt" a pset is to not do it or not hand it in ... about the Brass Rat is that it's open to interpretation.   After

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015