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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... , I tried to do numerical analysis of the propagation of radio waves in ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  19 pages of code in a statistical computing language I had learned in ... at MGH with a chance of appendicitis! Oh dear! Let me know if I can ... of myths about HASS majors (and minors) I hope I’ve dispelled in this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... sheep, at least one side of which is black." So today I came home and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... Tuesday, Reg Day is the "first" day of the semester in that it's when campus ... courtyard; I caught more than one of my hallmates cleaning their room. It felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... better food. In 2000 I left JPL to try out consulting, teaching and writing - a rather different style of exploring the world. At JPL I was

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... slow. Then, I was a sophomore, and that eventually took up 50% of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  wonder that they can organize all this defiance of death in a scant two ... something this summer (since I have an internship with Bayer in Germany ... Marathon or checking out the MFA. In fact, the only reason I even planned

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... 's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... than meeting new people and eating free food. Both of which I was fine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project ... occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few of its regular denizens (Hi, Nance. You too, Ben.) I was asked why my ... difference. Anyway, I offer you a tale of suspense and... you know, other

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  people i know; that they have used up weeks in the service of their ... significant concerns about issues of illegal drug use in Senior House.” the ... , proudly. One died of a motorcycle accident off-campus. (In 2015, The Boston

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to ... flights out of my local airport were cancelled today and I have attendance ... staying in Cambridge for Thanksgiving, and I understand why now (so much

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  blink of an eye, I was in charge of making them? something about that felt ... and not unsettling, when I was in charge of things rather than being ... . on Friday, I finished a pset, got lunch with a friend in Somerville

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I ... what I saw - not just the content of the blogs, but also the fairly ... , appealed to the journalist side of me). And that's why I'm really, really

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... out into the light of day to finally turn in that one impossible PSet ... smell of a wintery freshness. The Frosh and her Best Friend will smile in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  . Kresge Auditorium. Hayden Library.  A quote I found in front of ... off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... after quarter after quarter. It reminds me of a conversation I had at my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022