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• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  . * Super Mario Brothers 3. * The death of Richard Feynman (abdominal cancer). * The time it took for Billy Mitchell, father of three and president of a ... . * The image of a benzene ring. * "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when MIT bought the Riverbank Court Hotel from the City of Cambridge). There

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... less the image of seasons that exists in my head. When it comes to summer ... sandy beach, or scarlet leaves caught in their moment of descent, or the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... extraordinaire and recent joiner of the ranks of the notebook addicted, and the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever ... dismembered chickens, nor whatever other non-greenery mars the verdantness of ... willows echo the curves of smoothly arching bridges and cyclists have the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... note="Neither does the entirety of Course 21, including all of its ... majors and I put the idea of having our own course lounge into the CMS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App ... locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... the spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration, I'm doing something I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  - helped call the Early Action pre-frosh. Yes, all 522 of you! I'm not sure if we were lured by the idea of talking to prospective students or the ... showing of support. Most of the callers were freshmen, like myself, though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  concert. As promised, the second part of a picture entry. Check out ... , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... moving of all was seeing this, the hotel that Michael Jackson dangled his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... buildings (I know of at least 3). The Harvard Coop sells Harvard stuff, the ... told anybody this, but I spent the better part of 3 months agonizing in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

                                                Oudenaarden The pre-8.03 reaction: my level of awe and wonder is inversely ... back and forth, which in turn pushed air out in the form of sound waves ... glass to fall apart from each other are the same vibrations of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math ... reason about them. So I thought I’d take the opportunity of doing ... gesture recognition. The first day of class was more of a survey of UI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... , always following the same pattern - a glimpse of immortality followed by a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022