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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , now, strangely, that this is how I feel about physics. Through it all ... research, progress at a standstill-- that is still what I love about it ... essay I had lying around. I want to assure you, this is how I felt best to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto, much crisper than the 1996 Hubble photo. Right now the probe is ... Binzel, a New Horizons mission co-investigator, is also professor in MIT ... Pluto. In measuring how much the light dims during an eclipse, Leslie

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  UROP supervisor and sent along their greetings. (Science is kind of a ... Tech about a year ago: "MIT is the kind of place you love to hate, but ... . Things that will make you pretty much a shoo-in, even at top programs

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  fastest guy when a bear is chasing you, but only faster than whoever's in ... of a premed when you're doing X, but someone you know is (probably ... knuckle down and when to kick your feet up is a big help. Most importantly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  swimmingly. The food is delicious. We talk about a variety of things: our different stations at MIT, summer plans, how much Chinese we each know. At the ... One email. Over forty recipients. Scraped from [annotation note="a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  a horse’s lower leg signifies that it is sufficiently warmed up. Equi ... team demonstrated how to strap the boots onto a horse—which of course ... is Pinkie, stares at us knowingly through beady black eyes   A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  sunshine, crackling fireplaces, and pie. Mmm, pie. Here is a picture of ... landscape. Look! Rita is a sloth! There’s no doubt that we are firmly ... remember is how to lace up my skates and how to fall. I’m probably an expert

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No. How ... here. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming for a class of about ... . Submit a whole new application. Bombard our office with way too much stuff

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  forms my head is a little fuzzy, splashes of vivid colors here and there ... surface every time I make a decision or choice. Is this the way I can be ... [embed]https://open.spotify.com/track/5MsZIaCYY6Tsdph0LiB0hE?si=a10ec

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  a new chalk mural in the main stairway in the lobby. So much talent ... ="107131" /] Gatas is a really run game that we play on our now partially destroyed ... Y'all. Simmons is bustling tonight. I realized while going to get

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  't worry too much about how you write in your test scores in the Part II. It is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and ... that the outer layer is mingling amongst the inner core. Summer is a ... say all you're going to get are tips on how to eat like a West African

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  ’m honestly not sure how much it matters. I guess your teachers might be more ... year was of those "hypothetical situations" where a boat is crossing a ... and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  -that-be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met ... looks like (don't panic - take it from a reliable source that there is a ... ) + (when I) asked Zach how to solve a 8.02 problem and Steve how to solve my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... coursework here inner voice: Besides, this is a good thing, right? Think ... When I tried practicing for the swim test, I realized how long it had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... founded by a guy named Jim Margraff who is, you guessed it, an MIT alumnus ... a discussion about how it probably works, but you should go check it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to blog. Last Wednesday, I knew it was supposed to snow pretty much all day

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  ]Granted, this class is still related to STEM, but it takes a much more social ... studying. But college is much more than just classes—it’s given me such a ... getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  department's UROP administrator, and turn it all in by a deadline. This is how ... I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a ... here) I was thinking about building a gold-plated hydrogen super car, how

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  connect to MIT; you only need a username and password. This is a much easier ... absolutely NO IDEA how this happened. I think somebody made a mistake. *grin* I ... , you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005