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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  , revealed that “Maxwell's Equations in a Vaccuum” is an esoteric euphemism for “Fruitcake that will sustain you for two days in case of a nuclear attack ... lounged in line for around an hour to rebook a flight. As of this posting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  : Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a ... living in an apartment building situated over a butcher's shop, who pay the ... would they be and why? Oh, and ps, for those of you who are interested in

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  's really it. I wrote an entire entry about a hallway. In building 56. Because ... think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  is at an absolute standstill. We had an event tonight for the American Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early ... daylightBut then you wake up for the sunriseYou know you don't gotta pretend ... ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  's Entry: Chris wrote an awesome entry earlier today for admitted students ... ! It will be in the mail on Wednesday, and in your mailboxes soon after that. (This goes for both EA and RA admits who have submitted complete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... dry. Suffice it to say I was not expected to participate in sorority ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  : (text: "For maximum effect, consume after an exam.") Well, Diana is an ... everything. Then I sent our technical advisor for MIT-EMS an email, explained ... page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... to us in the comments below, we’re here for you. We ask that you ... difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... make the case in our favor. For example, over the last decade or so, our ... . You are probably an expert in guessing your spouse’s mood from one word

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  waiting in line when term actually starts.) Chatted for quite a while with ... Jessie's "partner-in-crime"), who was back in Boston for the weekend. Got ... . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... myself: going for a walk, decluttering my closet, playing a video game in ... .301 takes place in the Mars Lab (an arts-oriented shop space), which has a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude ... -paid, people who choose to major in Course 6 are "selling out" or "only in it for ... been right in my zone of proximal development for that. It's so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  For my last blog as an undergraduate, there would be nothing more ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... ’ve been an LA (lab assistant) for 6.100A/B (Introductory Python) for 2

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent only my younger years in Nashua, that I’ve actually been at MIT for most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos are in this order because we are student-athletes, not athlete-students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... promise it will become easier later (looking at you, 2.671). At times, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever ... and/or destroy something Meet a professor in the department you might

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... .  In the summer, I went back to Chicago, where I had been for the summer ... main goal for this summer was to become slightly more fluent in my mentor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just ... . You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005