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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  Phoebe had the lowest % of lines and words overall. But is there a better ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely ... them into averages, and the drop is still there. Because he's the most

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  Liz, Cody, and me that he was going to be heading up to the roof of the ... lights - there was a game playing that night. The famous Hood blimp ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , it is a significant investment of time to do the problem sets. Another ... true is that? It's the very smallest dorm, so it is more difficult to get ... the past five entries or so that I should take just one entry to catch

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  five lectures I went to this year. I really loved that the Q and A was 90 ... an overachiever =P), there's not much else to say. Except that the part ... accidentally reviewed a book someone sent him. The book was about porn - and to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  to Build a Thing that Moves, we only had to build one of the thing. But ... small thing that turns. If one of the steps to making the thing takes a ... how exactly to make that happen. Where should the thing move its leg and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  , a faculty member, is actually one MIT's Nobel Laureates. He won the ... among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. For the

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  the graduate dorms. Compared to the urban landscape that is the Boston ... choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . Yeah, I have an orgo test on Wednesday and a paper proposal due that same day and a lab report due Thursday and a manual on electrodes to read by ... . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  was that the variable used to represent the third dimension is z ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... and joined the cheerleading squad; it assured her that I hadn't been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no ... received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied). What is the ... decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past five (that is such a large number) semesters at MIT. and all ... always be someone there at all hours of the night and that when i was in my ... differences between classes here and there is that there are no TAs for any of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  friend that "A" and I only got into MIT because we were women. Needless to ... ", disregarding all the work and effort that I put in to applying to college. I ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  different parts. There was also a demo of the human brain and a gesture ... Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  % of the time. To give you a better sense of ALG, observe that it hinges ... less than 1/N4. That is, the probability that a single majority answer is ... /(N4) = log N / N3. This is equivalent to the probability that ALG fails

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... us a report and that report is due November 1--just like your ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same ... starting to be on the radar of people I knew. But there’s a pretty clear ... seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  fortunate that MIT has the financial resources to be a need blind institution ... . I wish there were ways that our society could find a way to enable ... the benefits and challenges of applying to MIT. This is the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  think to actually get up there and take them. I'd say that most people ... to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  -acclaimed street photographer in the meantime. The first step to a Pulitzer is to set ... , looking up. I guess.) The ironic part is that I tried to ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like ... of the first human oncogene—a gene that causes normal cells to form ... other institutions to do the same (more here). I’ve also blogged about the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017