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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  bunch of friends at midnight, but got distracted by Dennis '08 and Bethany ... 's against the wall, which at EC is a signal of being in authority: Schuyler ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... deal of preparation and are significantly harder than most exams at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last ... like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... of Godel Escher Bach in my bookcase at home, right next to Marvin ... at 5am, this was another “no brainer’ to me. Of course I would go to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , and will be online at https://decisions.mit.edu shortly. As Ben has ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... -maintained ramp. At the bottom of the ramp, I put some items into the car, and then ... , faster, after, behind. Prepositions: at, in, of, by, outside, underneath

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  + event at Head of the Charles. I was very happy, and so were my teammates ... happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  ='MLK-inspired: “The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Toward Justice ... its ways of wading in and out of life it never goes away it will always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6 ... rest of us found lunch at Chipotle and then camped the scoreboard for ... University of Southern California, for instance, had a mission score only 80

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  of things at MIT. Classes. Psets. Exams. Eventually, you'll learn the ... open mind. You'll never know what new opportunities might come out of the new things you try and the people you meet. Take care of yourself

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... arts college, a large flagship state university, a couple of community ... A thank you to all the supportive faculty & staff at the ’Tute

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno.'" Now the Bruno, like ... . It is currently New England Cable News' "video of the day." The Tech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  -quantum alternatives did not fit at all. Finally, at the end of IAP (a week ago), I ... somehow still ended up winning one of the categories. At this point, I knew ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  -all-definite list of things that I want to explore during my time at MIT, arranged ... speaks to my curiosity about the fundamental working of the universe, and I ... The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... of the dorms, and an even better time to have fun. We at East Campus ... / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  't have to consider any blockers in the way. At the start of our program ... . For instance, at the last depth of a search the engine can find a move ... a lot of extra work, but in reality the amount of time to search at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013