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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  headlong into the warm, humid embrace of the Fifth West kitchen. I simmered a ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more pressing Ideas Of The Now pop into my head. Today, the pecking order ascended

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... tomorrow night, Joanne will be competing with 16 women for the title of "Miss ... -Jo the best of luck this weekend!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The ... place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... with your offering. The truth is, Baxter never really left you. Search

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of Educational Counselors (ECs) too. The Seattle/Tacoma group of ECs obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  some reason the idea of spending five hours in lecture sent me into a ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open until beginning of August, but the really popular classes will fill up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the credit of a normal MIT class, but it's more than twice the fun - and probably relieves a good fraction of the stress accumulated from the more ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  rolltreppe I use the word funky loosely in conversation but these tunes are tight. um did…

  

  (here is a subset of the group at Dylan's Emerson recital): To crazy original compositions (here they are winning MIT's battle of the bands): To various combinations of the above mashed into each other: They

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... (!) talking about their experiences. There has been a lot of coverage of the ... has a long history of astronauts: More than one-third of the nation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... of Boston were cancelled, so after arguing with the American Airlines customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  issue of Newsweek about the future of America's global leadership. It ... environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology, education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of ... understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  sophomore takes during their IAP since it leads into 2.007, one of the most ... figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  neglected for a minute too long. Then I’ll head to the west side of campus for ... away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably ... Analysis homework contained only four distinct numbers in the statement of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and ... Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching ... Eugene, reminds me of a Dance Troupe concert (Dance Troupe, by the way, is one of the most popular student groups at MIT, with its concerts always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus ... remind one of the sheer number of unfinished pages they must write within

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... proportion of people in the population who have the vaccine, each individual

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005