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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  your test. You also can’t just not study and expect a decent grade. By ... a hoop, then I know that I’m about to spend probably a two hours on ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  that having a broken foot doesn't mean you have to lie in bed all day ... , and received my first paycheck. I shared a house with someone I hadn't ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  cryptogram, and from there, what could they be a cryptogram for? This one didn’t ... decent. I also helped write a piece of the endgame, which isn’t yet ... . Yes, it’s solvable. Encoded: I haven’t otherwise coded in at least a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn't ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck ... : MIT had a subculture that was unabashedly nerdy, something I closely

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  Prime membership (with free two-day shipping) for a year. And, supposedly, students have been taking advantage of this, now being so lazy they can’t even go to the store to pick something up. I’ll admit I’m no less guilty

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  am very grateful for these tunnels as I travel from the T to my office ... , it was like playing a video game - lots of exploring and getting lost ... traveling in circles. :-) Now that I'm more familiar with the tunnels, the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  participants, including ~15k in the United States last year. Bebras USA is led ... math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you're a student or a ... find your country's organizational information here. In 2014, almost a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  wouldn’t have to deal with the moving carts for a while (if only because ... ,[/annotation] if I’d like a [annotation note="APPARENTLY he didn’t actually say “to ... generous term. I’m a couple of inches too short for this to go smoothly, so I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  I didn’t, or else be willing to put in time that I didn’t. And we’re a ... airport with a member of my group who was flying out that night. “I’m glad ... When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  TECK!" But he didn't look over. So I went and got a slightly closer look ... fewer people than the Harrisburg, PA metro area. OH WOW, it's been a while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  life. If I'm not mistaken, there was a 3.091 class survey last year that ... 's a harsh claim. Perhaps you might soften it down until it's fluffy like a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  officially missed the last T run of the night and decided to take a taxi back ... . But I'm sure you've all already heard that and won't actually accomplish ... give them a list of cool things you did- and by that I don't mean a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  courtyard of East Campus, straight off the T from the airport, and saw a half ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  every designer knows, it’s not a rebranding if you don’t mock it up on a ... my subscription to [annotation note="Honestly? I’m a few months behind ... astray down a rabbit hole of isometric patterns. I don’t really remember

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  wasn't the same house -- but the blue sky and the warm colors struck a ... 's like they can't wrap their heads around the concept of a state that has ... didn't finish it to a level of using it for tours, but it looked pretty

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... thick, stubborn Problem Sets. Segways don't have airbags. But, for a few ... my birthday. I'm not in high school. I got a B. It's been one week

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  book and a complete set of notes won't give you the actual answers. As ... anything is definitely harder if English isn't your first language. I'm not ... who doesn't understand. Last night, for example, a bunch of us were

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  , I didn’t really have a clue of what to do with the actual algorithm logic. Since there are 81 cards in a deck, it definitely wasn’t feasible ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014