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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends Tonight, It Ends Tonight On this evening / I give the final blow...

  

  - cuz you can pass out of stuff or not take the FEE (woot!) if you do well ... .111 pset. One all-nighter. Wish me luck. ;) The semester is really coming to ... (after I'm done with the exam and the two psets I have to do after the exam

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... of the few lecturers in Chemical Engineering who hasn't yet been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the ... box of EZ Mac to gain entry -- but he's finally settled on the simplest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  of the past, I hope I'm doing a good enough job helping to make it a ... Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... housemasters, Student Life staff, two GRTs, and two residents of the dorm. We

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across the Harvard Bridge from MIT. We had an exquisite dinner of cheese, meat, and chocolate fondue... paid for by the Office of Undergraduate Advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment, but couldn't stand the intensity of the game so I went out to run ... possession of the ball. During PKs, I heard an Italian trattoria erupt and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  , listening to the Prince of Egypt soundtrack (Hans Zimmer AND Stephen Schwartz. Oh my goodness.) The couple to my left don't speak much English, but seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ). One of the reporters, Andrei, told me (in Russian), &ldquo ... the reporters pointed out to me that today was probably not a good day

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA ... vector originating from each end of the first segment. Connecting these two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good ... talking about where we should allocate money to do the most good. One of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of exciting things: the arrival of the Class of 2008 on campus, the announcemen ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... table of contents, which tells your readers what the sections of your post ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his ... baddest guy in the college communications business. Of all the pictures I ... part of the cycle. Ben is on his way to even bigger things. And that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  director and I had to email Chris, who was in the middle of committee still ... ).  And at this time of year especially, I'm usually back on the computer ... This weekend, as I was reading the Sunday Globe magazine like I

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012