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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  supported by the Boston Globe, a group of stellar journalists, I'm sure, but ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  quiet. We by no means wanted to see any of our peers outside of our school ... , she stopped us. She was sitting on one of the empty desks by the door ... plastic fork broke, and she chuckled a little out of embarrassment. By pure

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of ... by floor, not entry. Also, all of the stuff I showed you on the ground

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and ... her?”   “Of course I’m going to miss her, but why would I be sad ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  . I love throwing pebbles into bodies of water. I am easily amused by ... the glittery Boston skyline reflected off of the glossy black surface of ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  This past Sunday, I walked out of an early screening of Everything Everywhere All At Once hosted by MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). MIT LSC hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... (like I did for most of last year) and I feel like I've found an amazing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... say I was excited would be an understatement. Taking advantage of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  list of movies successfully watched by people in my suite during IAP. My ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  by the executive committee of the Next Association of Latinos Giving ... Linux on a potato. But last night in Next House, a very different kind of heraldry was underway. This story begins on November 24, when a group of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors ... resident tutor). The dormitory consists of two parallel buildings officially

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... connects other types of proteins. (I made that figure myself, in Paint ... discovered and characterized by Morgan, the professor whose lab I work in. Lots

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  requires me to drive by open pastures of cows, I might cave. We'll see. So ... So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of ... . And tour groups in Killian Court looked at it as they went by. Hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  Rutherford's discovery of the atom by hurling ping pong balls at strings of ... -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Swedish meatballs (made by a real Swede!), a professional-looking German chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... , after the hour by the Charles, I sat on the floor of my room with two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015