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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT YO Early Admits 2014!

  

  ! (where it's probably sunny now? - and yes, gummy chocos are pretty awesome, and your isef shirt is too :P) What's better, a Gummy Choco tube or a ... Scottsdale, AZ. Have you run out of frames to frame your MIT certificates yet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  ’s determining the location of where we are in the world, the area connecting to a ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid ... only a median and a mode; because no number would be mean to Nate Silver

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  lot of things about where I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to go into ... that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  to dinner with my friends has been a much more productive bonding ... boyfriend to celebrate his return from GTL Israel over IAP! It's a cool ... favorite place that I've been to all month. Roxy's is a (truly amazing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology ... -- is there a good chance that I'll be able to get the HASS-D course I ... a few people who decide not to take the class, so it's worth showing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... 't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics ... believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  .  Instead, I attended a three-day program during Spring Break where I worked in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... , across the dormitories.  Last semester, I tried to bring a prefrosh into

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  a constant level and where to rest for each day, since you were only ... , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do ... to the American Solar Challenge (ASC), where our team raced our solar

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  ...but she won't have to do that anymore, now she can just go in the Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for facilities has finally decided to recognize the Institute's gender balance with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... drawstring bag here, but I had to use a literal trash bag with an elastic band ... are a wind ensemble) to convince IS&T to loan out 12.9-inch i

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• 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 ... interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... talking to your professor when it's you, them, and a few other students who ... submit entirely to ESG, you don't have to. It's a good way to get to know a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mocktails happy new year new you

  

  It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a ... break, let's share a celebratory non-alcoholic drink to ring in the new

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  science has progressed to the point where we can predict solar eclipses and ISS transits to the second, there's actually quite a bit of uncertainty ... If you hang around MIT long enough you'll begin to notice some

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a little over a year to six large nations. Negroponte has identified China

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... 're not familiar with The Tempest, Ariel is a little spirit bound to serve ... friends and I rented a car and drove the ~2 hours to Cape Cod. It was cold

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014