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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  presumptuous way to address the Hellespont’ but in no way atypical of Xerxes ... I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... is studying, is that it's the opposite of the kind of learning that MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... longer because of the world renowned LA traffic, but it's a pretty reliable

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  ." At the bottom of the e-mail, Professor Guth's e-mail address, fax ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  everything gets a little more technical when filtered through the lens of MIT ... . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring of advice from a wide variety of students and alumni and brings up a lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... somewhere like the NRAO. Alternatively, you could switch out of professional ... research, and want to be part of the astronomy research community. What is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... unfold shirts and throw them back with the rest of the neatly folded shirts ... ) getting an early start. And that’s where the OME comes in! The Office of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... 's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class? Should you really be striving for all 100%'s at the cost of your mental

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  . This is true even though MIT doe snot use the Common App; submission of ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... waitstaff began to fill the bars and the tables full of treats, while rows and rows of people clamored about trying to take pictures of the half

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  our ancestors diverged from the chimpanzee lineage. One of them is from ... to Wikipedia has "the highest magnetic strength of any element." Ah ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... life or a mix of both? What about the professors? Are they accessible ... I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... of amazing minds that are truly changing the way that we see the mind ... entered the field of biology in order to make or find something that can

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  good. Other than that, we kept many of the traditions - IHTFP, ivy leaves ... , I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University ... million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of ... (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  -here passive- aggressive way. McCormick does not trigger a good side of me ... options, and a lot of the time they're the same thing. However, Baker does ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  sent to the wrong address, does the entire application get discarded? If ... , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are ... was only interrupted by renovations during the summers of 1998 and 1999

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  taking and posting many square, filtered photos of MIT.   As some of you know, the admissions blogs originally grew out of independent ... discussing starting an office Instagram, a few of the bloggers volunteered that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014