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• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and ... be no Ruth or Sam around all the time to make Conner 2 the bastion of ... ) about the series(!) finale of my ex-favorite TV show, Veronica Mars. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... nothing in the superposition of black and white   like the confusing ... the essence of this world that always felt a bit magical –   that

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them ... down the last 3 feet of the slide and crash into a continuous white spray

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  qualified no longer existed at the time of competition -- Serbia-Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... -hundred-something bears, each one decorated by one of the countries in the United Nations

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not ... over Zoom call. But someone had the brilliant idea of throwing a virtual DTYD in the Minecraft version of Porter Room, the room where it usually

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  where nothing is being learned We have an Asian (15% of the total asian population of my school) We have an Hispanic (30% of the total hispanic ... water bottle We have the teacher taking a picture of the lack of learning

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased ... creation of the “Bra” (brownie + bar) desert, which involved some interesting ... Blink! - “the state-of-the-art light & sound extravaganza that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom of the admissions staff that can be credited with the successful ... contributions or the work of other admissions officers, our roles in the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance regarding the proper exact spelling of the word. Are they psets, Psets, PSets

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• 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 ... of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members, students representing different MIT walks of life. The RingComm next solicits

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

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually ... 100th anniversary celebration of the creation of E=mc2, Einstein's most

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  out today and the sky is full of clouds, it's dreary, all of the ... permeating everything, the dread of what is due next week. I met all sorts of ... take pictures of myself during CPW (go figure) so I stole some off of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults ... Naples who, over the course of her adolescence, learns of many deceptions ... 's pleasure. I suppose the book is more of a collection of observations about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022