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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my advisor, stands in front of a blank board; he is grinning, hunched over, and ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  Jedi Old Republic. We chatted about the state of New Hampshire and the ... , but I was [annotation note="and i absolutely still am"]in the trenches[/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  , filled with 24-bit colors, and baked into pie graphs, just like the kind ... : I spent as much on textbooks this semester as I spent on food*. And ... , soymilk, soup, other liquids, frozen matter, and condiments). Since Fruits

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing ... ="at least for undergrads"]every single class at MIT[/annotation] that states that class starts 5 minutes later and ends 5 minutes earlier than its

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... answer. The rules are a bit more complicated than that, and are best ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  reintroduce myself and talk about life post MIT at MIT. I graduated June 8 and ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions ... learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  Dora '11, course 8 and Ancient and Medieval Studies double major at MIT ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... of Greece, Napoleon of France, and Frederick the Great of Germany, had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... do both AND watch an episode of “Glee” just blows my mind. Did I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... representing events from their first two years at MIT, and drawing upon suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... 's and Men's Athletic Conference"] NEWMAC[/annotation], we won 10 games and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... action and fun, certain things along the way make you think. It seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 35 students. A few years ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  gotten comfortable in it’s state of unconsciousness, and hauling yourself ... I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally ... ’re not even big things, just little chores here and there. Like taking my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  (Course 9 and Course 6-7) actually submit my concentration completion form ... , Bunker HIll monument, and more. (and more that I can't think of in my current I-can't-believe-I'm-graduating-this-year state of distress) O.O It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  before and slid my laptop back under my bed. Hopefully my gel would be ... and several rainstorms from several feet of table and a window away. We worried about flooding (and hosage); meanwhile they withered in the cruel

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  of faces and experiences makes it all worthwhile. * Came home to find ... (Vamos…); NBA Finals (aww Boston…; next year!); Wimbledon (Rafa!!!); and ... and all the fans in pandemonium of national pride is pretty exciting – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  . Let's take a look around 54-100. Shiny and state of the art. I did a ... 't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it meets 2-3:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays for lecture and some time on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our ... enough to be back on campus it immediately feels like home, and I remember ... and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014