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  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the ... equilibrium and how to cope with that.” In a similar vein, JLab is “systems aren ... , and a part of that is engaging with students. Go talk to them!!! Getting

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via ... ’t actually move from point A to point B but instead just spontaneously appear ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  someone with a polaroid camera. They called out, offering to take a free ... , turned out to be a [annotation note="imagine sight reading it on the piano ... . There are fifty some-odd organizers packed into a room, trying to make

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  guaranteed to win no matter what, and subsequently decided to grace us with a ... ultimately like to become a professor and undergo robotics research. Despite ... , is Beantown Taqueria, a cozy Mexican Restaurant with delightfully spicy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  retailer through their app, that retailer will donate money to a charity of ... during a Mass Innovation Night to see if I recognized or had already met ... most people don't want to think about, but it helps give a peace of mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  , who ran into the lecture hall like a superhero. “We’re here to deliver a ... -way street Just a looking for someone to meet One woman who was looking for a ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a

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

  Taking Shape

  

  coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... global warming. Because 11.002 is a CI-H class, we are required to rewrite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... meetings and sometimes concerts and other events. last night i went to a poetry reading for a class; last weekend i went to the MFA, danced, worked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... question 11a on our application ("what do you do purely for fun?"). Try to ... -around puzzle to find a coin. Mystery Hunt is a big deal at Random Hall. A friend

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with Future ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  MIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive a decision ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET.  To check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  to MIT; most of our admitted students were not a part of the ISOs at ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor ... ’s harder to create a set of terrible questions and failing student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  the right to carry a laundry hamper across their own yard. When I walk ... to Seven Eleven, the frequent walks to the Charles River or to a friend ... together and separate and lead to hidden treasures and displays: a lab with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  portrays MIT in a way that is familiar to students past and present, and yet ... promised to engineer a better world. This film asks a simple question: Have ... Normalisation, created by BBC journalist Adam Curtis. While on a gap year due to COVID-19

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  how i’m feeling now goodbye mit <3

  

  I left with a very tangled relationship to achievement and success, a ... I expected college to be more of the same, just at a more complex ... began to feel okay, so incredibly okay that sometimes it felt like a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • June 1, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  willing to be distracted.   We strung a hammock from the ceiling me balancing on someone’s shoulders to tie the knots. A course 6 sophomore ... certain camaraderie to finishing a pset together at 3 am and walking down

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to ... seems like a better time, as people prepare to arrive on campus and start ... from time to time. :-) I am also publishing this because (a) I really

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... has a history dating back to the 15th century. The most traditional ... kilns, napping, chatting about economic theories (I was just a listener to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012