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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  my brain during the last two weeks, mostly typed at within 4 minutes of ... .] consciousness at the scale of gravity, if neurons could tune to the fine geometric ... and diverse ecology of numerical life forms. to look at an integral and

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

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on ... rest of the crowd replies "Sucks!" You can try this at any movie theater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... and MIT President Susan Hockfield for a night of celebration at Red ... Francisco. • Attend one of the three events happening across China at 12:30pm

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  Instagram everything, including the view of the Prudential building in Boston ... can change from pleasant to ominous in a matter of minutes. And that ... I actually spend days of my senior year passing out the latest issue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... best chance at being put where they're happiest. Of course no system is ... live. At the end of REX, you can enter the readjustment lottery, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to ... actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions ... previously blogged about here: Pat McGovern '59 - Founder & Chairman of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to that fine university. Here is the story of one of the very first students

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  actually gorgeous yesterday, except for the 10 minutes at the proposed ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT ... physicist can be. Currently the Feynman professor of Physics at Caltech, one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One last bit of advice Before all hell breaks loose

  

  shooting stuff out of air cannons, doing a ridiculous physics problem, or ... decisions come out at 1:59 PM, they more than likely will be released ~12

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This year, ring delivery was held at the State Room on the 33rd floor of ... ; the image of a student locking hands with the Alchemist (above right at ... elsewhere at a college football game. One was when the figure of Mens was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  . And listen to this—I looked at the skyline and made out dozens of ... saw three buildings next to each other, all of which had at least twenty ... remember walking around the streets of downtown LA at night, counting three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not ... choose at the end of their freshman year. Also, changing majors is ... Management Science at the end of my junior junior year. How do students choose

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... Spanish class of the day is at Harvard, SPANSH 81 Table Talk and Food ... class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases ... prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  at the homepage Spotlight as of Friday and continuing through the weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... post on the early history of international students at MIT, particularly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018