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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  heritage; in fact, there is a Canadian law enforcing that the regiment can ... Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a ... because we had to fly through Newark airport. We got a hotel room in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  impressed, but the writing score is not a big factor in selection at this time ... pool. There is no advantage or disadvantage to having applied in a ... what if there is a big difference in SAT score and TOEFL score? For

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  Sam pose for a picture in front of Burton-Conner. Notice that Sam is ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this ... BC though. The first is Sarah in front of McCormick and the next 3 are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  though we're actually in Cambridge) at least once. This is because Boston ... remembered what it was like to live in a place without public transportation. I ... than one, so coming to a city with a Subway system like this is like

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  much power as Miami? And that datacenters in Virginia consume about a ... English words, I can describe things in a non-caveman-like way this year ... that was much longer than 1 hour, but the opening banquet had a lot going

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was ... Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Arial's R has a diagonal leg. That means that this sign's body text is in ... is in [annotation note='A friend points out that maybe this is actually ... Papyrus. This font pair is so notorious it's appeared in Undertale, and a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  check out the sky The light pollution is a bit horrendous here but in ... I will get a good grade in Simmons Hall, which is both normal to want ... . Make fancy desserts in the dining hall Because if I’m paying that much

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is ... States. It will not tell the reader how to get into college or how to run a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  '17. It really helped me get a sense of how much coding I knew based on ... of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer ... to adopt a new syntax.\n") print("So how do you start? Do you pick up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  gain a much better understanding of exactly how an action potential works ... that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work-filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... vectors linearly dependent. In other words, a triplet of vectors is linearly

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  .   (from Wikimedia) Colum McCann sat on a high chair in the light. He wore a ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own ... . What a wonderful skill it is to speak like a beautiful novel! After the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on the fifth day (fifth? What day is it?? Is it really Thursday???) in a row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  is a weird time for everybody, and while there was much about my pre ... this is a refrain I’ve heard many times from many people at many ... came to MIT, I really didn’t think frat life was for me. And there is a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  that my score is lower. Edward persists in disagreeing. We make a bet. I ... cooking, pika is more than happy to match you with a Big Cook in case you ... (that is to say, pretty much incoherent but inexplicably awesome anyway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic ... something. . . " Off to the side of the stage a large black drape is pulled

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of ... was how to use a very strong light to cut tiny lines in paper. [carousel ... wanted to make a force/area + change-in-body figure to understand how

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  surprise then me about current me: That radio plays much less of a part in ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational ... college (lived in the same dorm). He’s a mechanical engineer. No kids (yet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025