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• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a ... have an attention span like that? Chris has blogged about some of them

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... labs benefit from the (effectively free) labour of highly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  .01), and Humanities(21W.XXX), so I'll take you through a day in the life of ... Hudson, a past 8.01 teacher and one of the best lecturers I've ever met ... material a walk in the park and who took two days out of the week, and a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no ... say that he's basically the rock star of biology: central figure in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  invisible gravity surrounding the way people treat you--a kind of feeling you ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to ... as a person. It’s odd to feel suddenly placed in the world of adults

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... the lack of generosity of some other parts of the plan, like financial aid"]Many students were baffled by the generosity of the iPad plan

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... of the regality of the place). I had told my parents again and again ... nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my ... of products that spun out of 2.009 and into the market. I remember ... asked a question of the Green Team. You can evaluate whether it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  from 8.02 (electricity and magnetism), a couple of people from the best 2 ... 'd just like the thousands of prefrosh who read this to know about the ... wanted to poke my head into Alicia's office (she's the director of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  couldn't tell you off the top of my head how to distinguish between any of ... the end of the Renaissance), 21M.235 Monteverdi to Mozart (1600 ... Present. If I had my way, I'd take all of them as a grand tour through the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many incredible applicants to the MIT Class of 2028, which ... with the best of intentions, even though this may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs and our whole process

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  the point of unwritability. I would probably still be re ... , though, I’ll spare everyone the pain of Schrodinger’s equation and just ... estimate of RPM by getting the pitch of the sound being produced! I'm doing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that ... my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... high school, but times that i remember with the sort of fondness that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... with the pros, or just enjoy the company of other Rubik's Cube ... attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  the end of the show...and here is how we kicked off the beginning of the show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis ... 'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010