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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner ... the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... is a possibly-staged photograph of me while I'm studying for my finals

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  do, and *then* find someone to pay you for it." -Gerry Sussman Well ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  , "s") to a long word ("animal") and for that turn I would receive points ... , at 1.12 words per turn to my 1.10. Comparing points earned for single ... of Absence for Academic Year 2020-2021, and afterwards it's unlikely I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  , and help figure it out, or have suggestions for what to do in the future ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  're stationary with respect to the plane. But it goes without saying that, relative to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  't always have to do it for him 017. Most overused phrase on an instant ... . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  instance, it is very easy for me to hate a specific person in my life who makes a lot of anti-asian statements, but very hard for me to deeply hate ... respond to texts. and a similar statement is true for every other item i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  a ring for 1000 people can't be easy, and no one is ever going to be ... upon a time it was tradition for only men to apply to college in the ... . (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  colleagues for showing the world how MIT works." Her May 2nd email to the MIT ... article suggests, we probably won't have to wait that long for the next one. Thanks to Bruce Mendelsohn for the pictures!

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of the FSAE car. So far for FSAE I've made minor contributions to the frame ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  to see fizzing water. They can drink soda for that. Feeling a little ... ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... witch? Me [exhibiting how to irresponsibly wield one's older sibling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  and to have them come up to you afterwards and thank you for what you ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as ... Salem. Linh ’13 is sitting next to me sleeping, her right hand holding on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  happy to provide us with eyepatches that she bought for her photo shoot ... it out to Bumpkin Island in Jeremy's lovely little not-quite-ready-for ... an accomplished songwriter. However, if you were to use a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  little to show for it-- I always end up back where I started. (Maybe bike ... it was finally cold enough for the ice cream not to have melted by the ... slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  must be to run an Instagram page, or how quirky I am for learning about ... in. To simply do things out of a love for it and nothing else. I hope ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  it was no trouble for me to just lie down, put a sheet over my face ... , because sometimes I want to sleep for only, say, 7 minutes before my clothes ... paying for it. They were closing so I didn't want to trouble them to make

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

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  looked for ways to balance and adjust. Spoiler alert: all the tweaks to the ... keep growing, and for more people to get to know synchro. We’re already planning to make it more accessible for anyone in the MIT community to try it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026