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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  in 10-250 are, indeed, purple). "I'm a HORRIBLE singer!" she protested ... posted here.) I'm not exactly sure how you get to become a guest blogger ... I'm taking 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) this semester, which is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  understand it. I'm sure I've improved at a lot of things since coming to ... , and that I needed some form of exercise that wasn't just long walks with ... . I think I maybe had a brief stint with it in the summer before? 9th

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can ... of Lagaan, was that Mitwa begins with M-I-T. 0xB. Marvin Gaye, Inner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  . I'm a bit sad that I don't have any ideas for mega posts this year ... ![/caption] this year, the show obviously isn't happening, but I'm still planning on ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a ... me a while to get used to all their quirks, but eventually, W.M. became

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  of [latex]a[/latex] for a time of [latex]t[/latex]. [latex]E_k =\frac ... center) or something similar. Most notably, we don’t define a circle by ... ; This idea that pi isn’t truly “fundamental” has been talked about for a

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

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  even more depressed, because I was sure I wasn't getting a tube, and I ... , after a year (even though it's a week 'til finals. When did THAT happen? I'm ... a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA, where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 ... of the summer #1. I’m a junior? It’s about to be Year 3 of MIT and I’m

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment ... Warren K. Lewis, a chemical engineer who had been involved with the ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  helped! jUsT kIdDiNG it didn’t lololololololololol XD. And then I hit this ... ’ve improved my grade soooooo much if I had just s.u.b.m.i.t.t.e.d.i.t. Do u ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind ... many and answers are few. Things are changing at a rapid pace and I don't ... without carving a pumpkin? I don't know either.) 31) Competed in and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  thought it would be funny to put 8.02 (E&M) and Course 9 in a blender ... , which aren't very insightful as I've only been to each class once. My classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new bloggers. The response was overwhelming: we received 48 applications. With a 12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  , I'm reminded of the Cocoa tradition of the Fourth East (a.k.a ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big ... go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  screening of Jumper! Speaking of Jumper, I'm wearing a blue sweater. And now ... take a minute. SOME FRESHMAN COURSE 8 MAJOR: Oh good, so I don't have to ... TEGMARK: So now I'm going to talk a little more about classical

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from ... work out at Stanford   h a c k e d   then stop by the Stupid ... 's always good to know that if this admissions thing doesn't work out I have a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ...  Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  ). I can’t utter common phrases like, “I’m taking 3-4 technicals and a ... entirely by chance. I’m certainly not a Philosophy (Course 24) major, but so ... about Economics, a subject which I’m clueless about beyond the popular

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  GPA and a D in 10.490. I’ve never gotten a D in my life, and I’m sure ... . The saddest part is the reason why I got a D. It wasn’t because I couldn’t ... I’m forced to delay it until next semester. 4. Sleep: I didn’t get

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007