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• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  and I had just woken up to go for a run, so at the time I pegged it as a ... ran up and saw canines), it was definitely a school bus for dogs. I have ... award for our cross-country team last year, I’ve also learned that it can

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  without. For the bottom tiers, I want to add a disclaimer that I don ... semesters, I’ve taken 43 classes, totaling 510 units, for an average of about ... , and I wrote an art and design thesis. These credits congealed to form a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my ... Saturday August 31. - I'm sitting in 4-237 (a classroom with nice tiered ... with Silly Names -Hairy Ball Theorem You can probably guess which one I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles ... just did the math -- I'm only getting $3.50 more an hour as a grad student than I was as a UROP. Well, at least my paychecks are bigger.) I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week ... the best books ever: Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a ... for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  following email: "I , and the department are looking for 4-6 volunteers from ... volunteers we will pick names from a hat." I RSVP-ed attending to this lunch ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  , for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... don't, I assure you that you have a host]. We also have some backup ... the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  about 40-50 students, so I figured 60 students would be a safe guess for ... I had a great time last week at ISEF. This is what it looked like ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few ... care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I ... . From the light curve, you can determine the midpoint and consequently ... Emily Levesque for more information) that is a great introduction. Shaye

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... , and take what comfort I can from the knowledge that I was gone but ... this day. Today I am just going to rip a post from Ta-Nehisi Coates - an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a ... school, I spent three summers at a program called CTY. The few weeks I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  will not be available for a while. You can note in the Midyear Updates ... can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... 're only looking for this from students with something to report -- so if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  because you can learn a lot from each other. We had groups of people team ... packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  traditional desk: Serendipitously, I borrowed a [annotation note="from my ... I also use as a small TV, but I attended class from bed last March ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... of an experiment of interest) here's a list of some places you can find

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... waiting, like when I want the reactor to heat up from ambient temperature to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets ... .004 has labs rather than problem sets, so I posted a problem from the first ... of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  parents. Have a nice day. I don't know if any of you have heard about this, but I thought it would be best if you heard it from me. It's been a very difficult time for me and my family, so I appreciate any nice comments. Mean

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006