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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I ... 't studied for? Femto-cool. You could even apply it to those tricky end ... orders of magnitude. You're like an exa, and I'm at a centi." What's more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  registration page comes offline. Which reminds me… Have you registered for CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  receive our rings! Most people ordered two rings, one gold and one ... is used for more special occassions like interviews or weddings (just ... martini glasses. I thought it was ice cream for about an hour and wondered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  not the original 11.041 I signed up for."]11.001[/annotation] project ... /Thursday and then study Friday/Saturday/Sunday for my Monday exams. But then I ... coming days, I feel behind if I'm not ahead for what's ahead, y'know? In

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  make?” I was, for better or worse, all too familiar with this “ultra ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... vehicles for traversing Hyrule to full-on attack drones that mow down hordes

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one ... accidentally made this extra cup of coffee, and you order coffee a lot so I ... . They know that I order coffee a lot… I think I might finally be a regular

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  these aren't quite on the same order as Matt's). This time around, I was being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... ’m doing are super exciting. I have one other big goal this summer. For the ... 50 hours a week at UTSW, I’m hoping I find answers for myself soon. Oh

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  website offers free lesson plans for educators. Although anyone can purchase ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... Mode. I purchased an egregious amount of Mountain Dew and barricaded

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  its utility for physics and CS. I suppose I still don’t, since I’m not ... ; Let's talk about things in order, though. Start with physics. I'll spoil the punchline for you: I'm officially a course 8 major now. And yet

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  bestowed upon ten leading researchers from four different continents for ... could blog it for you. But I digress. Want to know the answers to the ... Chemistry (move over, Schrock) for proving, along with 20 student volunteers

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for ... requirement in order to have friends. It's not a requirement in order to have the "college experience". In order to be fun at parties. I always hated

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order. And order I did. Pizza de Quattro Formaggi Translation: Four Cheese ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play ... expensive ($48? for a throw pillow?), and c) Adam would hate. I headed back ... had finally shipped the new book I had ordered, Monkeyluv by Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon ... Nemo aquarium dream but for now I'll stick with freshwater. Anyways, here

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  begins to buzz. Play hide and go seek with my alarm clock for twenty ... :28 - 8:40 AM: Breakfast made to order, the wonders of having your own chef ... . Stop 1: Take a picture with Tammy the Beaver for Fierce Forever. Stop 2

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ? Microsoft?"]different colors:[/annotation] Pick some ordering of your vectors. Here, we’ll go with the order red, orange, green, blue. Draw the ... is true no matter how you drew the vectors you picked for your zonotope

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you ... now to make sure everything works for you. Strange things happen to ... a similar link for forgotten usernames. If you're having trouble

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016