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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  indoors). At the end of last semester I finally caved and bought a bunch of ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms ... back from Pennsylvania at the start of the semester. She made the trip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  required to send your official scores as part of your application ... ’ll verify these scores upon enrollment. If you receive new exam results after ... the "Add new test scores" link in the application portal. We accept
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  through the walls of your veins, until at some point you don't know any more ... , memorable experiences of your life. I. Everything was a new thing and it ... the park, at an altitude of about 8000 feet, near Yellowstone Lake, days

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look at my grades when they get released. when gradescope or canvas tells me ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people ... meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very ... Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  win that I didn't do any editing or even make an attempt at decent typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  New England highway history, the likes of which can't usually be found ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... aurora borealis. Of course, I don't have any pictures of these things

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  Jul 20, 2025 at 11am My friends (Asal V. ‘25 and Isaac L. ‘25) and I built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for ... , which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book ... .06 instead of 7.05. Oops. I retreated with my freshly free hour and a bagel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Paula Abdul is not African-American. She is of Syrian ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  know this. I confirmed as of this evening (Wednesday) that admits in at ... want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random assortment of words you may hear majors, minors, and class names further

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  backlog into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... ) is "life is short." His phone is currently at 1% battery, but it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  (This post’s tagline is ironic because I’m actually kind of hosed.) I ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent ... another hour instead of buying food or watering my plants. Three weeks into

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce ... give a preview of my four years at MIT in the artistic form of my ... So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  -so-put-together parts of my existence at this college. The musings, the worries, the ... will 2020 throw at us next oof"]one year[/annotation] of saying words ... -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020