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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... . Each endpoint touches two periods, the ones before and after. This is a ... that Geo calls up in Jersey City, and take the LIRR to the Round One in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  and is due at around the same time. Again, note that many of the ... 's helpful to note that a semester is roughly four months, or sixteen weeks ... semester, compared to midterms that happen a quarter or three-quarters of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  ; nobody makes anything that does the same thing that Parafilm does, and it ... is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... , impressive water vapor transport properties, and is resistant to many common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  ), realize that these classes do not always avoid the 5p-7p time block. There ... competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of ... the gym when I don't want to and the 'freshman 15' was just an abstract

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to your belt.) Then lean forward. (This is where you really need to trust

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you’ve been ... early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... and a bunch of youtubers made up these storylines that they act out

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... before heading to the living room. Kate's there too, writing something on a ... next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  'd like to address and of course there's lots to say leading up to the ... the festivities that Mitra did, and the "MIT celebrity"-served midnight ... "Yankee swap," a funky gift swap (described here) that sounds more like a 6.001

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  shipping company's site explicitly states that it is "solely to track ... . Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy ... abroad have figured out that they can call our shipping company to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  countries in seven days. As such, there was a lot of coordination that had to ... same-day shipping service. Since there was no time left for delivery to ... 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 / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  out. All of this is leading up to the tried-and-true open question ... plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot ... your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... . The fact that they form a belt is also pretty cool. Here’s an ... parallelogram to the other end, you’re going from a side to a side that’s parallel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of ... young age, my sister and I were raised with his itch to travel, with that ... ’m quick to recall that sense of accomplishment, the thrill of having

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  take the same stance! E3! There are few weeks of the year that makes a ... their manned space ship gives us hope that the commercial option is not ... how this new research achieves this goal. And the best part is that this

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  . There is a deep trust placed in us by the MIT community, and indeed, by ... students to be incredibly engaged and think that nothing is impossible. The ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  USA is that it has really has taken root in the midwest and mountain ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... than 60 countries and more than a million participants, including more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  That title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I ... returned each email and assured the authors that we were on the same side ... comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  back, the ship struck a coral reef and began to sink. Cook's resident ... equipment that the ship returned to a safe, floating equilibrium. It was ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  understanding why it is that people act the way that they do. I like to try and ... trying to claim that this is the best way to look at motivation. There are ... from the world. The second was a bit of a “prove to myself that I can

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2022