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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... at La Verdes at 3 am and trying to make a pack of four Vienna Fingers ... pride that comes from knowing how to navigate the tunnels and a silent joy

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus ... at least a few days in advance, if at all possible) than to not ... would like to room with a female student, or is that a given." We will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better ... genealogy. Physics, quanta and the ability to observe action at a distance

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a ... weaknesses. I think back to a story one of the bloggers told me about coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  IMPORTANT PERSON I AM INTIMIDATED BY YOU 2) HOLY CRAP THAT IS A GOLDEN ... that meets once a week for two hours, so we actually get to talk in depth ... nights, though, which means I had to drop a class I've been trying to take

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  important step. If your EC has not gotten back to you, and it has been a long ... until we post a blog entry saying that we have processed all materials. It may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose ... makes it really easy to explore. Do you need a course 2 class that counts ... 's probably the easiest way to find a simple list of classes in a particular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... ’ve faced or something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you ... asked my friend in NYC to go into my room and drop off the passport at a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... , in essence, the closest thing in nature to a fountain of youth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  on the side to move the gun up and down. It's a relatively large gun so ... inspiration since it would be easy to mount on the gun since the gun required a ... , Raymond had to get a hold of a fully automated, fully electronic nerf gun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  , because we have a standing agreement not to go to dances. We used to go ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... year. If you plan to live here over the summer, I'd recommend buying a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian ... happiness is about twice as important to me as my physical health. I know that

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  BMX, but there are a lot of people here who like to bike. Let It Bleed ... pull a four or a five out of my ass I'd want to take physics all over ... reference to the beatles =D" Haha, it's actually a Stones song, but I also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half-baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every ... phone was at 3% battery. The man behind the counter moved to cut me a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  your progress---to fill a notebook---felt far more satisfying than ... notebooks, and ask me to page through it, or even take a picture. I think the most important shift for me was starting to see my notes not just as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  wanted to become a programmer, but we had too many of those already, so to ... before finally converging on the correct method to saw in a straight line. I learned to use a tap by accidentally snapping off the tap while it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... : the mathematical knowhow to take a bunch of scary symbols and boil it ... ML papers a "physicist's mindset" to inference problems: learning how

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024