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• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  this a bit more this IAP. I’ve liked the feeling of stretching my body while simultaneously strengthening it. I want to explore the feeling of exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my ... ’m in a weird purgatory of majors. Hmm calibration implies the existence ... changed majors to [annotation note="one variation of the mechanical

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  Now that the class of 2025 has arrived, they are, expectedly, chock ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... acapella group, a sorority, MIT Symphony Orchestra, and join the exec of your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the 77th MIT-connected winner of the Nobel Prize. My favorite quote from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My review of the movie: TWO THUMBS UP. ... . Diana boarding the "Knight Bus" (ie the Big Yellow Bus) with her ticket

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  catch the tears that would otherwise run with the ink of your applications ... been answered at the end of it.) ... Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  fashion, come home a few hours later and camp out in the basement of our house to work. This is not the point of the story, though. The point is ... this might be the weirdest conversation I have ever had, the good news is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  of the airport near ticketing for 40 minutes while waiting for it to ... you're smoking today between the 6.5 hours of airport sitting plus the 4 ... I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  honest, so is the number of RA applicants who are admitted. It's hard to ... committees, and no one person has access to the reason (or set of reasons) why ... characterized by this kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  according to Wikipedia: 546 – Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila ... excommunicates Henry VIII of England. 1777 – France formally recognizes the United States of America. 1790 – Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  for the rest of the day in the spirit of productivity. If you know me ... me feel like I’m giving up on all those core aspects of my life. At the ... didn’t understand the vastness of the world, but my fear deepened as I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  . (Thanks Sylvia '14 for the cake!) and a surprising number of uses for ... of the year housing lottery as an absolutely critical, life ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011