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• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... right attitude towards a very expensive education, but truth is, sometimes real food is a serious priority (you will see why soon). RICE. ORANGE

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me ... Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  've blogged a lot about FPOPs in the past. This year's FPOPs include (update 10 ... Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in-a ... -random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... how to use • And a green sticky note! This was the sticky note that was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  So we were a little more efficient this year in making decisions (i ... alphabetical order: Paul Baranay '11 lives in Simmons, and 20 is currently the ... ' money in Hold'Em, pursue training as both an EMT and a Medlink, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  Juice is amazing, my dog's sitting on my left foot...") and not in any way ... 't being spent taking a minicourse, going to a country in Africa, or becoming ... the most part, I'm about to find out just what there is to do in this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  the first one there! I suppose there's a lesson in here somewhere: no matter how dedicated you think you are, at MIT, odds are someone else is just as committed than you are. I think this is actually a good thing, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... more importantly in the fact that I had reached a point in my life where

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on ... each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  a year and a half ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said no. half a year ago i got offered a position as a blogger and i said ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?

  MIT is affiliated with 104 Nobel Prize Laureates. You could be taking a class with one of the 12 current Nobel Laureate faculty members at MIT very soon!
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... so easy to feel hopeless and give up. But today was a lesson in ... how truly massive this movement is, and just how clever people can get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... and Wyoming to be in attendance. I was lucky to have a great group of ... , USACO is the best program for high school students interested in pursuing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you ... . If you still need help after that, feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note="please be nice to them

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  the tough semester is that between having my time tied up in school and ... for later. The way it typically works is I'll have a random thought or ... might be wondering what exactly it is that I'm holed up in my room working

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  professor he worked with (Daniel Kleitman, a professor in the Math Department ... understand!) A graph is just a set of vertices connected by edges. You can ... rainbow cycles, where a rainbow cycle is a set of edges that form a cycle or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... when I was in the group. Yes, I'm a proud Log papa. :) It definitely ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We ... an interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for ... about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... is the uncertainty? Polymers, believe it or not, involve a lot of ... school and polymers and cats.   There's a great future in plastics

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016