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• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  blog to show that there *isn't* a 'best way' to choose where to apply ... school” anymore — I want to try for a master's. I’d been playing with the ... science.  And honestly? My instincts were correct. I was able to get a pulse

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  drive up close, you have to use a car that runs on diesel. There are some ... . "Delayed by four minutes every day" is a familiar expression to astronomers ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  sticker. A very simple introduction to both teams: Alabama: Called the ... are indoctrinated into a team before they're able to make a conscious ... who they learn to root for. One time in middle school gym, a girl told

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year ... Shortly after Kidist's post, we were both added to a massive Messenger group ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... head to a lecture or museum. The variety of museums in Brazil has proven ... normal, but it took me a few days to relax when I get into the front seat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello ... be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed out on the opportunity. However, Bea has given me a chance to guest blog

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy

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

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do ... did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... much everyone knows me as "jen lai" ("jen lai" also happens to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  formally Alpha Chi Omega, by the dubs, shortened to A Chi O); and Greek Week ... selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list ... heart throb of more than one female I know. To get a taste of this, here

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  -planned outfit that I could conveniently use to be a smart alec to anyone who gave ... are all very welcome. I hope it helped you chill a little about the whole thing. There will be plenty of time to go crazy and lose sleep once

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  know that becuase u will have a vast eastern culture to discover, and the eastern culture is awesome to discover." Well, I'm picking up a bit of Hindi ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their ... suggestions and ideas of the entire class, RingComm designs the ring over a six

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

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning ... . And the next day we got the chance to celebrate a belated Halloween with

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And ... comically improbable possibilities? Can I just take a moment here to marvel

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... Cambridge. Of course, as a general rule access to the roof of the Green ... Society, of which Ternus is a member. Long story short, Ternus explained to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  've thought I'd be doing my homework with a blogger?" Anyway. On to Woodie ... /her students) and he also happens to be a professor here at MIT. So a few weeks ... discovery a few days later. I was on my way to the MechE computer lab to work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no ... stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... the most informed decision we can. As a matter of philosophy we try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via ... her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  BB gun harpoon gun a sedative Whattt a week to repeatedly kick my ... to a lot of unnecessary comparison and dangerous competition on my ... me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026