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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the ... advertise for their schools. Nice, neat, Photoshopped pamphlets arrive on your ... 'm free to post whatever I want. When I push "Publish" it goes onto the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the ... darn hard for it. And I'm willing to bet that more than a few students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  , for that matter) of Dorm Rush. As a result, they aren't quite sure what ... other options, but he professed his undying love for 3rd East and ... the time and resources allotted for next year's Rush would be cut in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana ... entertain thoughts, and when to save them for later. Give myself the space

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  free food and fun for you to enjoy. It's a chance to meet the ... up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  comparator and quickly produce a correctly sorted list 99.9999% of the time. A ... : However, some of them, usually the problems that were stepping stones for ... “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  , screaming for my mom. Muddy water pounced on my legs with icy strength. A few ... if you’re lucky, while heading to a dining hall for lunch one normal day after class, you might grind to a halt for a different reason

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  , for a few reasons. For one, pulsars are tiny: city-sized, or smaller ... old school machines out there. Fortunately for the scientific community ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  stating what you read in the textbook. For example, often bio exams ... freshmen are taught to memorize phylum names and label parts of a plant for ... ." ---- Without further ado, here are the "finalists" for the photo contest from, uh

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  experiences on the Burton Conner Transition Team, which is responsible for ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to preserve its communities. For one, our murals are being painted over, and we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of ... for me was the culture. I didn't realize this until I started visiting ... buildings are always open. You can easily find an open classroom for students

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  right place for you and leave without a degree. In that situation, you ... to GRADUATE from a college. I know that this is hard for you, but you ... people with two different sets of talents, abilities, interests, goals for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the next few days. surviving on snacks and free food scavenged from ... amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  our football team is a true Division III team, and the players play for ... —rushing for 170 yards per game, attracting national attention—I just have to go ... he was a junior. As soon as I saw him, I went to the web for a look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... and new experiences. I know that I will create the conditions for my ... experience these lives singing against mine for as long as we choose to? and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  For those of you who don’t keep up with the blogs, I’m Sabrina M. ‘19 ... a lot. For the sake of clarity: Senior House is a building. It is ... shoulders, the alumni who praised me for everything I had done even though I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... ) my paper. As with many writing assignments, the biggest challenge for ... quickly realized that the paper’s focus should be on how characterization

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , spending my free time hunched over my desk studying for dreaded midterms ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... choreography for DanceTroupe, and after we ate and cleaned up dinner and dessert

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... next step for a bio major who wants to be able to live comfortably

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019