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• 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.

  

  measuring gravitational wave emission. This time, Kovac & co made another ... past three years that it also has a high density of physicists who are ... and the astronomy community are abuzz with excitement: I've been getting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake ... . Linda: I took it last year. The problem sets are hard. Me: Really? It can ... . Holidays are like American dollars in Europe during a recession; they

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  September/October. Details to follow later, when there are more details to ... closest friends are the people in my entries (I lived in A for three years ... applied, I wasn't when I got here, and I'm not now. I think MIT has made me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried ... by the Rockies, while the eastern part through which we drove are ... High School, where we were scheduled to give our session, had problems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you ... ’t fully answer a single one. There are no formulas, numbers, or memorized ... , suede boots). They look around, trying to see if other people are sweating

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  . Where do saint feast days and festival dates intersect? Well, both are ... 's boring, because you've already solved both mysteries and are tired of ... winter on a 21st century MIT campus, so chances are that whatever she spent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  autonomous stage comes before the driver stage, where the robot runs on its own ... in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me ... 're stacking cones one year, or picking up cubes the next. Those are invariant

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  art. I like science, too. 8.012 made me fall in love with physics. You ... thing. Sometime near the end of freshman year I made a list of all the ... wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one factor among many for evaluating your preparedness for MIT. Test scores are ... , grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April:

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

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  cheap yet fun giveaway, we are considering temporary tattoos. They would be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a ... /funny/interesting/amusing/cool/awesome. Here are a few ideas to stir the imagination: What are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  college education, here are a few questions: 1. What are the skills you hope to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes ... don't know know? 4. What type of environments are most conducive to

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  it. CJ: But by the time we are at that point… Anna: …then it's already done, right? We've already made the choice. CJ: So what are you ... more semester before I graduate. CJ: And then what? What are your plans

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor ... " today. And, in a landscape strewn with shoddy writing, his articles are ... from one of its creators. Take it away, JG! This past weekend, I made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  here are quite tolerant. Administratively, I know that at least two ... Deans and Vice Presidents) are gay/lesbian, and MIT has added gender ... are other majors (not lotteried) including Chemical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  up late talking with my best friends, are going to bed thinking back ... is one that has left me more unsure overall: I thought I knew what made

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  turned in a pset and heard a grader say, “wow, that really made me change ... ;   These are just some of the seniors of Baker House! Josh, Juan

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... burrito at Anna's Taqueria, I head on over to the UROP panel. There are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013