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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  hallways. In an effort to spice up the recurring blandness of Maseeh’s white ... ! (hopefully).   If you win the lottery, you get to go back to the ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how ... 's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The LiveJournal Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part three.

  

  THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS: - Prioritizing sleep - Exercise - Taking Timur's money in Texas Hold 'Em THREE THINGS YOU NEED IN A ... THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: - Other people dying - My debt-to-income ratio

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I ... for those who just tuned in) kid, I have to take this *one certain class ... Science and Programming. That’s right, folks, in addition to English and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... benzenes really know how to react Bond lengths are equal, yeah that's a fact ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... we want to know how you spend it. Current music: Marvin Gaye, "What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the ... -107) and one women's restroom (3-101). But that's about to change. And in ... facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... never seem to come out tasting right and my chemistry experiments in high ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... something positive to this world. People here do this in so many different ... what you've done to get to where you are. Answer the question, and it

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... room for them in the class. It has been our most competitive year ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  -Entry Thanksgiving Dinner A new tradition we started in A-entry this year. Each person ... ! It's not everday you get to meet a blogger My favorite A Phi lady Leslie '10, and one of the coolest people to ever major in Course 10

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... set and are MAD expensive. I also need to confirm that getting a ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... 's course, and hope to get lucky in the end. Let the games begin. ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006