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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that ... cones, sharp-beaked birds, and points.) In four weeks, I'll probably tell ... how magnetization is like a covariant vector. Ex: Me: “Hey, can I borrow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... Steven’s part in Happily Ever After, and how proud and happy she looks when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  creative digital ways.  Paciencia y Fe  I remember nights, anger in the ... struggles in her life up to that point, and how through the hardest of times ... happening (at least not in their originally intended form), and the work that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo moon-landing program in the 1960s, Hockfield said. Read more (and see the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  how big VR@MIT has grown in just the couple of months since they started in February. I knew the people who started it when they started it and ... space that I spend all day every day working in. Applicon was one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon ... in brief, bold type that itself (through hyperlinks) serves as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  ): This isn’t in the REX booklet, but since prep is from 6:30-7 PM, I’m assuming that I’m right. The Water War is a yearly tradition in which we East ... me during my REX, but after living in East Campus for a semester, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!

  

  How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of the tragedy that happened in Boston this Monday, knowing full well that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  sparked protests in several other Arab countries. Some of these events I ... There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  First: Hello! Long time, no talk. I feel like each of my entries this year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... in the months to come! ___ That's it for now! I have a couple other

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its ... luck. Having just turned in my enrollment forms, hopefully I'll see you

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... at MIT. As a prefrosh I had no idea how political MIT was. As a ... be immersed in the tradition that is the MIT flame war. Also, did I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... ice cream parlor in America and I sprinted away into the snowy night

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice cream. I'm not surprised. As you may have learned from an old entry by ... example, the New York Times called Toscanini's "the best ice cream in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  question. I'll be interested to see how many people try to answer this, and ... Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class ... Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break ... Computer Science) homework, and writing this blog post (how meta). I leave ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  this could be appropriate, but generally I would strongly discourage this ... admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I ... SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007