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• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... ", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A ... I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  about their groups. Check it out! WARNING: The host (me) is wearing a ... valedictorian). Anyway, "White & Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" (Ridin' Dirty ... contains a piece about the annual Freshman Photograph, the Kendall Square Bio

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... with my family, before leaving for the next leg in my trip -- a layover ... (the German equivalent of a high school) in Essen --  Leibniz Gymnasium

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... squeeze it into the margin. I hope you'll notice that I actually added a ... entire sheet of looseleaf paper) But there is light at the end of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  friends are in a band at MIT that is affectionately known as Love and a ... . Other friends are involved in a capella groups on campus like the Cross ... you are in the area this weekend). All the art is his own and amazing

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I designed a marching band drill for MIT and I didn't even need experience

  

  me to choreograph a piece for MIT. The app is surprisingly easy to use, even though I've never been in a marching band (or any kind of band). The ... Marching Mapper is an application for designing marching band drills

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in ... require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  "Jewels", which is a three-act ballet created by George Balanchine ... ever, aka head honcho (RIP). Each act is represented by a different jewel ... backdrop. From there, dancers came in what my friend says is "traditional

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us ... a jerk. That is all. ... .org soon! As in: this Thursday, midmorning. Right now, we are finishing up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... cat now! (And what a beautiful cat he is, might I add.) Pspspspsps ... ? That’s okay. I think I saw a sign with your picture on the way in. Let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the ... back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  is very helpful to us to have you write in your scores in a way that ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we ... for anything you might mail in (like a fee waiver request or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is ... [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  is a Strange Place, a lecture given by MIT Physics Professor and Nobel ... to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week passes so quickly, and the weekend is over in a flash. I don't know ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this ... thought that counts, and the fish is delish. -A glass bottle and a bundle

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and ... [/annotation] even with recurring episodes of tent.     This is a guide to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  toupee" is not a bug, but expected operation. Thank you for your ... We've recently had a few readers email / comment that they were ... first blog weren't clickable. The upshot is that our CDN was for some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  what is a home-grown, born and bred, red-blooded American hick. It ... -the-go young professional from the Northeast. However, in any kind of a tight ... , there is none. For the first month and a half I was here I did not see a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007