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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... up of a mix of everyone's interests. It's pretty clear to me that this

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final construction plans, to establish a government system and to begin the dorm

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life ... Harvard Bridge to have dinner in Boston, and a trip to Star Market for ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  gathering of similar magnitude to my past adventures. This one, a ... bet our countrymen never gave up due to a little bit of precipitation ... left the dorm at 11:30 so we could go to the mall and pick up a super

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to ... afternoon, my host and I took a walk around the area, to clear our heads and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... Baker House. [How To GAMIT 2004] Bruno - A unit of volume equal to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... friend had a better response to the last question than the blank that i had: ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... to do a less chewing and a lot more moving. ... I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web ... be told honestly this time, I've actually forgotten how to write

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  , quoted verbatim from a letter left to her host before she departed MIT ... QUOTE: "Coming from Stanford [before MIT's CPW], I actually bought a ... now regret that I even bothered to spend money on that, haha. I really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... maybe my entry may have persuaded you to pick the red chair. It was a well ... installed in 10-250, MIT's most popular lecture hall? If not, take a quick

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , but I miraculously passed and am now a teeny bit closer to graduating ... International Development Network, a community network developed to promote and ... again. There's so much that I want to do (especially now that I'm a senior

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... , which seems just so MIT to me: ''Whenever I see a problem, I become

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... a riddle for today: You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1 ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we ... a week (~20 people, discussion class) fun fact: Professor Lipkowitz

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to ... States was hit by a devastating snowstorm this past weekend. The storm, which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  GELcamp started with a two-hour bus-ride from campus to New Hampshire, where ... much, so I was surprised to be greeted by a cozy summer camp with dozens ... build a solar farm to help offset MIT’s carbon emissions! Half the time we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker, and I signed up to be a photographer! These photos will also go on the ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024