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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  doors. MIT CENTER FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS is printed on each in small ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in ... Dirac Medallist smiles awkwardly in front of an innocuous upside

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... ...you actually AREN'T doing work, because the total work in circular motion is zero ... ." is from a musical written by MIT students that I performed in. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  story of an age? Of landing in the seat with the best view of the business ... Princeton in the first place?   This isn't just false humility. It ... played by accident in their lives. There's a lot of other good things Lewis

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

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... with since I'd done really well in BC calc, but decided to take anyway. I ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  90% of these getaways have happened in the Big Apple, “Weekend ... home…hung out in random Jamaican restaurant 12:50 pm – got settled and ... the leaders from the other Impact chapters in the New England area. The

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... our fate, in fact, everyone got a letter and you pretty much knew if you ... day to school. Even in those days MIT announced their decisions earlier

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  West Coast-ers and international students take note: when it snows in Massachusetts, the precipitation comes down in shovelfuls. Now if you're like ... ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... one that asks applicants to describe a situation/project/idea in which

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... soaked in whatever toxic substance fills the Charles River, smashed a ... ), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about Model United Nations at MIT. I covered this issue somewhat in this entry, when I went to UPMUNC in November. One of the most common questions the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m supremely disappointed in his lack of judgment. Still. Mechanical engineering ... more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just ... people who are interested in joining RingComm. Those interested people send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... passages are those in which Maddox carefully reconstructs the frenzied weeks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA ... specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... announced that the hawks had returned. There were a few hundred people in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  build the Beta processor. Yeah, a processor, like you'd find in a computer ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  weekend on their MIT portal; in fewer than two weeks, we will send out a ... CPW! If we can help you plan for CPW in any way, please call the CPW ... info, check out the MIT Bhangra Club and Bhangra Blast. A.M.C. asks, "In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing ... stories and transcribe them in a blog so that we could highlight the kinds ... " align="alignnone" width="2560"] ... and the interviewers in the beloved

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the ... school in our conference, the NEWMAC, with 199 conference titles. And just ... , but success across the board. Every MIT team in the NEWMAC has won a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... accessible in the liminal space between semesters. I remember starting every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025