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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both ... many passion indicators - but I emphasize one of many. When I was on the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... the operation of the trains -- and new space is opening up where those

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... of the money MIT collects goes to charity. I've now invited all of you ... is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively ... the door of her cadillac, I step in back, and we're gone. She turns me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s ... nerdiness is futile, so I might as well be unabashedly proud of it. The second

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of the student hosts who have returned from vacation (hundreds of them ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  ,500 applications this year, what is the probability that one of them read your ... gets two reads, what is the probability that both of them read your ... Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Check out these t

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.

  

  Episode 5 (The Empire Strikes Back?) of MIT's experimental podcast ZigZag is now available, including stories about the 2.007 robotics ... can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... from outside on Killian Court. You can see the grey expanse of the ... off the Infinite, many of which have massive windows and are often empty

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of ... MSSM Class of 2015, the age range is from 21 to 31, with the average age being 23. I'm 22, so I fit just below the average age of my class. It's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of ... –oh the potential. So much of it. So many dreams, so many possibilities, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the election has been the educational prospects of undocumented students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train ... , then down Memorial Drive in front of Killian Court on their way to the TD ... , has been excited about the coming of the elephants for over a month. So

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... of campus and bought overpriced staff paper and suffered the pains of ... free coupon books at the MIT bookstore instead of one to mitigate the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... ) and provide evidence of the completion of my music concentration (3 ... of The Three Little Pigs where the wolf is a health code inspector

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of ... post about this before the end of the semester...i'm doing my best ... convenient way to keep track of the bajillion things that i want to get done at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  time, I've got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so ... entry. Thanks everyone! Expect an entry tonight about how to make the most of your CPW experience.

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007