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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  'm going to try to get most of it done today. I also have another event at 4 ... , and try to get homework done. There are a few distractions at home - see ... Lydia K. '14 challenged us bloggers to write about our days, inspired

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  to get there Okay well i googled and like Is it gonna be a run instead ... bag cut off or whatever and there's no guarantee my bag will get to the ... other random Chicago ariport i was going to I'm getting to Chicago an hour

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  heavily inspired by someone I knew in high school whom I really looked up to ... (E) and my froshy self decided to get very well acquainted with canned ... intro. I then added bloom by assigning an emissive material to the text

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a far more circuitous route. Specifically, I started my day by having some ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  . From the website (biographical links added by me): In Fall 2020, all MIT ... them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  total units by the end of my junior year[/annotation] to do an internship ... when things don’t go according to plan. By exploring all these different ... the previous point, I had to shorten my summer internship by about a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  about handling classes and encouraging me to get rest when I was sick ... -watching by Kendall Square, running through pouring rain to pset, and almost ... school, and my parents also didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t ask them

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  . Everything else you have to hammer by hand. Iron bends more easily when it ... , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... it by taking the Turnpike, then you have every right to think so. But I ... Waterpark. This means I get paid a very small hourly wage to stand outside all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to ... 't really get it either. After the presentation we all got to go right over ... terrible, torrential thundersnowstorm to get home (if German can merge words

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  form supposed to be postmarked by May 1 or received by May 1? The form is supposed to be postmarked by May 1. Both students who are and are not ... difficult to get into the program, because it seems like every other person I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  gremlin brain was endlessly fascinated by it. I dragged my family to see the ... would get another concentrated period of time that I could commit to the ... projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  's memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we'll take another step in getting back to normal. Tonight is the annual MIT Spring Concert.  Every April, students bring a major musical act to campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let ... pretend to twirl a drum stick - to prove it. So let me fix that: Because Elizabeth '13 has a good point: we all need some way to show you we're not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... formula to exist.  Galois theory is related at least by analogy to a ... by no means all!) natural phenomena occur due to the accumulation of a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

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

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... . Everything below the line she wrote, unedited by me.  playlist i. i want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  to smooth surfaces by taking advantage of intermolecular forces, which ... wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  1993, but only became used by IBM to create transistors in 2007. Fin ... their research to MTL's industry sponsors like Lam Research and Global ... about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025