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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  mercury in the Stress-o-Meter hanging somewhere inside the back of your head ... potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... inconsistent on both sides of the ball. Earlier this season, when the Patriots

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we ... My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For an added effect, hang Christmas lights around the room and dim the main lights.   (pictures courtesy of Banti G. ‘17 and Emma F. ‘15)  

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... each direction. Of these two, the one closest to the wall is the lane for ... still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... .003. I ate a lot of stuffing today. But most importantly, like two weeks ... mechanics or string theory, for example). Two of these classes, 18.353J

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at ... Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)! He shares the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  real feel of -15 degrees. Just don’t do this one. Highly not recommended ... As I write this on the final day of the year, I cannot help but think ... far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in ... 2007 study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico determined ... According to the 2007 study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of ... . Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... days... enjoy them! 390 --> 522 I've been noticing lots of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History ... the face of tragic events, giving those who observe from afar a word for what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Landier of the Stern School of Business at New York University went beyond ... discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about ... occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... apocalyptic event either of us had ever experienced. I knew the auction was ... any of those editors. They took my manuscript to acquisitions meetings

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... In honor of blog post number [latex]6283 \approx 1000\tau[/latex], I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... distinguished member of our history faculty, Professor Craig Steven Wilder is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... change the world. With that in mind I started thinking about The Universe ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised ... do our own correlation studies," said Marilee Jones, the dean of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly selective college or university? How hard can it be? All you need to do is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... heavy scrape of a chair. “—your eggs, Mr. Concord.” “Thank you, Mrs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013