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• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... down on your stomach at the 30-degree (or pi/6 radians, if you prefer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal ... . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Coast. After an early morning trip to the Manchester, NH airport (that 4 ... young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of Educational Counselors (ECs) too. The Seattle/Tacoma group of ECs obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... in Roman numerals, as far as I know....oh, the intricacies of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the ... them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  offer any remedial math classes ‘below’ the level of single ... help us better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants, and ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... school who also ended up on the East Coast for university, see Big Fish and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... overwhelming if it's your third donut of the morning (we work hard ... (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  's show choir my junior year. I was captain of the largest color guard in the state of Ohio, and we went to the Macy's Parade my senior year. So I came to MIT and joined the cheerleading squad, of course. I came

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  the east coast. This meant learning about weather, types of stores that ... My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... proceeded to listen to them. A lot. I'm glad I did, because it's one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  This past Sunday, at 4 AM on the side of U.S. Highway 1 on Badger ... and up the sides of roads, through the heat of the mid-afternoon to the darkness of Highway 1 in the evening, until, finally, at 2:50 AM, we stumbled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  train, enjoy the priceless view we get of Boston and the Charles River at ... station, watch the crowds of people coming and going, till I finally I hear ... train. I’m one of the last passengers to get on. Phew. Since I have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared ... corner. the blankets on the floor are on top of a standard foam mattress ... Doctrine -- the enthusiastic belief in the liberating power of technology

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  strangers.”) Have no fear; there is light at the end of the tunnel. Second ... decisions will make a profound impact on the rest of our lives. My classmates ... , many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  the previous year. By then, some of the people I'd loved working with had left, or were on another team, or were on the other coast, and I ... is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  in the winter of my freshman year. But life matters were really ... certainty is wildly oscillating. You can not compute the derivative of its ... . That was the first surprising turn of events. I was (mostly) certain I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... , never let my education get in the way of my learning.   Love you, mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009