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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  the Ascend MAX TNT—a name which, by the way, is not something you should ... upgrades since then, and is now a really pretty building of servers and ... 576 single-mode fibers. A single-mode fiber can beam something like 10

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT ... that there should be a huge price for declaring faith- that'll keep you ... if you grow up in a Christian family, there's a huge price for NOT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  penalize those students who apply regular action. While this 30% is a much ... , often, nearly half of the class is filled from a much smaller early pool), remember that here, being deferred is not a "polite rejection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  confused you into thinking that I am. Nope, I'm just a sophomore that's going ... 'd like you to meet someone new, though -- This is my gigantic freshman ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  interview, there is really no more you can do but wait. The decision is out of ... stressful, you will get anxious, and it will seem at times that there is no ... I could have handled things. Senior year is a rough one. With a full

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  resources to its students. There is a pressure to live up to its promise of ... those days. the blah The ones that don't feel quite right, but you can't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  behind again. Wow, something else you can’t do. Shocking. Basketball is ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... . ------------------ I want to talk about integrals. I’m pretty sure a lot of you nerds who

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  comments and a preliminary grade before the grace period is over. You can ... every month we have a paper due on one of about 30 topics (or you can make ... you can really savor a film (or a book for that matter), writing a paper

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  simulation lab where we faced this exact challenge. My ELL team has a course ... . Our Task: We had a bunch of things to figure out: What time/where ... representatives. These labs are fast-paced with a million things thrown at you at

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  shows you where I work-- at the wonderful Whitehead Institute for ... sequence. This is a data sample of a portion of the Arabidopsis metabolome. The rows are the variating Arabidopsis lines, and each column is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  Note to anyone who is confused: Cruel Summer is a Taylor Swift song. I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... 's Spelling Bee game, where you try to spell words given a fixed set of letters

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  (where blogger legendary Elizabeth C. '13 lived). You can see the new ... going for inspirational and life-changing. Here's a gif in case you missed ... reverting back to a 24/7 schedule next year. During CPW, there were little

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  EPIC, but was also a sweet finish to a hectic junior year where I took ... -minute bus ride from my apartment, where I work on developing a novel medical ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a ... . When lofting a bed you can basically choose what you want to use to build ... organizing a dorm room. Sure, it can just be a bedspread and a poster of your

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  shop where the guy was super, super friendly. Also there was a giant cut ... can’t believe you’ve never been to Zinneken’s. I got a Brussels waffle ... I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  , watch out for the light! "This is a bad idea you guys. There's no way ... 's her with the red hair) "It's a fish! Hey, um, where do you think we ... the hall, put a sign on it that says Reuse (the sign is actually

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  to two different chemical engineering problems. This is so you can ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... journeying, you go toward a dam, which prevents you from going over a waterfall, under a few bridges, which is harrowing in itself, and into a romantic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... he is now. It's hard when someone accumulates more titles than you know ... you had to be there. Russ may have also increased his chances of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  whether anything is right or wrong. Some of you started a discussion about ... for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual ... . (By the way, as you can tell from the number in the photo above, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009