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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in ... Greene put together, to see who could best explain string theory in two minutes or less. (Note that one of the people in the viewer's choice winning

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  year as a private diary to document my food adventures in college. While ... introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I ... the T for all my cafe hops, so my location references are in relation to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  as soon as possible or you will place your graduation status in ... or modifications due to a disability, please notify the physical ... be discussed. Include Physical Education classes in your IAP or spring

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  truly found paradise". and in i (don't) want the summer to end, i talk ... had lots of things i was looking forward to in the fall. that last post, i (don't) want the summer to end was, in my mind, the post that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  of my blogs, or sent it to a friend, or even tell me in person that ... did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way you existed -- the way you'd burst into song in public, or break out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  there are hosts, probably -- other people in my dorm are putting two or ... you should check in). Happy travels, and we can't wait to see you this ... with whom you're staying, go to registration and/or the Help Desk (2nd

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project, tinker in that lab, or spend a year overseas (all expenses paid) teaching

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient ... coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge-find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  convenience of being able to type an essay in the comfort of one's own room or ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about James Joyce, and thought about many things as she learned to swim in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf ... failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in ... In response to this blog entry: (As a reminder) Don't hesitate to ... difference in lecture with students wanting to do different things?" Hey

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... were applying to either had animation classes or art departments or both

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends ... -or-so more of his constituents. He agreed and we made plans to arrange ... , and that change has to start somewhere. Having spent my time in college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  of taking classes like "Intro to Algorithms" or "Machine Learning in ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not. Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very interested in applying to MIT. I have one question about the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005