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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... thinking about this actually for the last few years, perhaps in an effort to alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically ... : "I could've sworn that I've seen a photo entry in your blog, Ben, or ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  . But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I ... [/caption] I'm falling behind in this fall semester, and running hard to try and get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... 're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... ultimately will not be able to admit everyone, or even most of you. But ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  express that something is rare or unlikely to happen. But I work at MIT, you ... to consider the factors I would need to put numbers to, in order to ... likely to be born in February than in other months, so given that I'm born

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  , which may have led to the construction of a third double in F. As of now ... all I know, Housecomm might need to meet in secrecy these days.  But in ... first got to MIT in August 2016, I was temped in E entry, and the first

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  pie and send in a picture (mine's pumpkin)! Or you could try making a ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... , either chatting with friends or staring at their feet, absorbed in their ... village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  's Admitted Students Parties. Tomorrow, I hope to answer questions. So, in the ... think so. And Ryan went to the Party in Philly: I went to the admitted student party in Philadelphia tonight. I knew it was going to be fun, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  wheel has to be removed to be able to get in or out of the car. Also ... 4 Gs? Better yet, are you interested in working on a team to design ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions ... effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  . The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from ... thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in ... took it easy with the rats. In essence, we're training them to run

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  how scholarly my future can be, or looking at internships to apply for ... I needed to allocate to things and, at first, was evaluating myself in ... it a chance to succeed is better than doing nothing. Lucky for me in

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... newsrooms are full of women, all those women are less likely to be in top ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  in the nature reserve and walked around a bit before the ride back to ... it. I haven’t been to Alewife in a while now, because I’ve been too ... is starting to set in, we’re actually planning on going this weekend

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if ... in MIT, our great students and research facilities, or just in learning

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to an Oregonian best friend studying abroad in France. Lots of eggs ... -hour access to the studio but no one telling you what to make or when ... make something, do it--or decide to do it--right then. That's my advice

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013