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• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  that yesterday I permanently restructured the shape of my skull when the back of my head slammed on the ground. The ski patroller asked me if I ... farther (further? does anyone really know the difference?...Of course, now I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  walked down the halls, there was a good chunk of name tags next to the ... has a giant banner in the lobby with a collection of trophies on a table ... subset of those were a miscellaneous mix of talking about the sanctity of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... "]reckless abandon[/annotation]. But that’s only scratching the tip of the surface here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  I've compiled the best of them here. Enjoy! "If the roots are ... board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  continuing to process the large volume of materials we have been receiving ... take 2-4 business days from the time of receipt to be processed and show ... ’t. Given the mountains of information we’re receiving, we have no way of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... End of the World, respectively. Each group was given a zampolit ... and the writing teams. After an hour or so of discussion, each group

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  as simple as the bus or the end of a rainstorm. Right now, I'm waiting ... of 46 meters, and yes, waiting to see if the rain will stop so I can ... . For the class of 2025 [annotation note="oh god so young"] applying next

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... will of course talk about admissions, including the different application ... about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... about the college process with all of you. I'm incredibly excited to join

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  flip side of the victim-EMT dealio. Which means that I get to deck myself ... things. Right now, the quality of my bandaging would probably do more harm ... a joke? Or stand up, turn around, and tell them the color of their hat

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you ... one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... substitution for the swim test. This is the only instance I could find of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a ... are all alone sometimes, you are not alone. MIT is here for you, the students, and everyone else who is a part of our community and more. And so

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  This is the second part of a two-part series about being an MIT ... with their [annotation note="the emergency grading policy of Pass ... ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the ... best kind of fun. And so when Snively suggested that our annual beginning-of-the ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012