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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last ... continued to learn. I wanted nothing more than to carve my own niche in my ... what's been going on in my life so I thought I'd throw together a giant

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  right here?!" The kid right next to us, though, took the cake. In a voice loud enough for everyone in the area to hear, he shouted, "NICE MOVE ... that he was standing right next to two people who could easily put him in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  (still maintaining our distance) to get a better sense of her size and ... forward a bit and we saw the small cavity she made in the sand to drop her ... edit the brightness in post, but it's still pretty hard to see because we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Deferred Open thread for deferred students.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs for students who have been deferred. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Waitlisted A forum for students who were waitlisted.

  

  In the near future, we'll have some advice here on the blogs about being waitlisted. In the meantime, feel free to use this forum to discuss anything waitlist-related.

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Technology Happens My computer is hiccoughing.

  

  So sometimes in a computer's life, it decides that it wants to enter eternal hibernation and refuse to function. As in like...today. Thank goodness there's Athena. Return I shall, and soon.

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... ‘insignificant.’ In math contexts, though, ‘trivial’ generally refers to something ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  to MIT in two years, I wish you all the best for the future ... are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more ... were selected to "become the next generation of tech visionaries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action. We will have some additional advice and instructions for Deferred students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  enough chocolate in general to sink a small ship, midnight did indeed roll ... guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... semester at MIT, something I didn't get to do last summer. I went to bed early and woke up early, to weather like this People in Boston will

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT to compete in these three hackathons: HackMIT, Hacking Arts, and MIT ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make ... resort to simple explanations and casting of blame. In fact, the science of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... take-away. Earlier this year Eliza asked us to install wireless Internet on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the ... On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015