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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am ... checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  include at least one photo from every month of the year, and they ... the west of there! July I spend two weeks in July at some warehouses ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet!  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  hours of my life. Eric '14 and I tried our hand at some astrophotography ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of ... Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Utah are MIT ECs (!). I ... missing a lot of fun stuff back at MIT -- a talk by Steve Wozniak, an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... place off campus at the MIT Endicott House. Various presentations were

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application ... percentage of students at MIT end up majoring in something other than what they
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  day. It was fun with the endless barrage of plant puns like these: At ... of your email. So at first, I thought the colors at the end of the ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  at any time, which is nice because a huge percentage of MIT students ... at all. Class of '13, remember this when you're deciding between ... -and-Shaolin-Soccer-filled celebration hosted by the Association of Taiwanese Students at MIT. ATS seemed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  the lab of Professor Jianzhu Chen at the MIT Center for Cancer Research ... spend the summer of 2005 at NIST, studying the use of optical tweezers to ... 5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... 've concocted so far. 1 box of questionable purpose (If you're wondering, the ... marginally better than party balloons.) 1 night of fireworks, thunderstorms

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12 ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... memorial drive side of next (waving at random cars until you get the right ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  odds of being seated at that dinner next to that Salomon Brothers lady ... by a professor of art history at Princeton? Of having been let into ... classes at MIT. Here's a piece of advice for you: don't work too hard. Don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... , useful information here: the "J" at the end of the subject number indicates ... Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My ... only available to people in the MIT community, and at the end of the day ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011