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• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... team bonding events because I would stay in my partner's room most of the ... ready to graduate. in the case of my relationship, I had no dating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a ... deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  LTI was probably when I caught a real egg with a pair of tongs. I can ... myself from having to be covered in egg yolks for the rest of the day. I ... take the studies I'm interested in to different types of levels. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  . Once in 66, you can turn to view an interesting room full of old ... ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  RNA that can shut off 10 genes at once in the livers of mice, and they ... involves all sorts of stuff I’m interested in - wet lab, molecular biology ... There are many legendary stories of perseverance in history.  Custer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... of your body love what it loves. i emailed him a few weeks ago in a ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  one can be a graceful Rheinmaiden while suspended 30 feet in the air I ... utterly awesome - perhaps my favorite opera of all time. I tend to listen to ... "villain" of the Ring Cycle, Alberich (the head dwarf), currently engaged in

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually takes place. A lot of us have building permissions in the MIT Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  times. Personally, I can't recall having heard of anyone being hassled ... ." Viksit, I can't tell you what your chances are of admission to MIT, because ... , or independent living groups, but that's a can of worms I'll stay out

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... miles ever before, and so I've pretty much experienced the pinnacle of bad

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things ... well as a brave soul ready to be shot out of a cannon! Something I think

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  entries that I neglected to answer here, you can repost in the comments and ... accepted in the space online. Can I send it my e-mail? If yes, where and in ... probably don't have it. I would recommend sending in an additional copy of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... going to present in higher dimensions). I.e., the number of points in $A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  something embarrassing. In one of our first sessions, I tried to convince my ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 ... rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because ... of experience to go back on, and I can't reassure you about the next 3 ... 've achieved and what you'll do in the next few years, I'm awed.  Every day I can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I ... Thursday at a dinner with MIT's Undergraduate Women in Physics, of which I am ... -notch restaurants in Cambridge. Speaking of which, I owe y'all a Sparknotes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  know I haven’t blogged in a while (yes, yes, I feel the mass of your ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I ... hundreds of vines, turned in seven p-sets and two essays, played Cards

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014