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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  plenty interested. I've even managed to get myself tangled up in potential ... I left home to come here, but NJ was still home in my mind. I knew I ... years I'll be able to say things like, "Oh yeah, I used to live in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  , so you can gift Nectar to Gods or your friends in the Underworld. I ... recognition in this blog post. I've found that it's really hard for me to work ... Saturday activities: bundling up in my bed, turning on the TV to put on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... in soft ice. The first time I went to the Big Rocks, I didn't bring the ... seconds. But I'm glad to have felt such cold up in the Big Rocks, as the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  closer together those entries were. I used to say that after 3 or 4 days ... heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting ... was not enough to make up for the previous....well, 4 years in general

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  kickin it in the sunshine out in Killian Court, or eating whipped cream out ... was 14 weeks pregnant (and stopped in to use our aid station's restroom ... . Thanks a lot!] I read the blogs a lot as a prefrosh. And sometimes, one or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  fulfilled by taking 4 gym classes, or by participating in 2 seasons of a ... , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is most represented, and what is the most populous country to have no MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... jampacked Macklemore spring concert Thinking I'm going to do pretty well in ... not running to catch the 1 bus in fear of looking stupid The Mac

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... know that Guide to Residences in the NBM? Check out our i3 video in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  also happened to have my laptop with me...and there was wireless in the ... 'm currently sitting in Kresge, ready to liveblog! There's just five minutes to ... the person in front of me, who decides to turn around and give me a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  experience using take-home mini-experiments, or "goodie bags," in 3 ... Matthew Perry in Japan in 1853 with the purpose of “opening up” Japan to the ... to do with the differences in the two countries’ writing systems, with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  months in whatever way life directs them to. Some students rejuvenate ... students. So if I send out an email to all of the dorm mailing lists, I (in ... things to happen at certain time frames. But what we see in the stories of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... pretty much tied in terms of campus culture and workload. I want to major

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  beaver I am, I decided to book my flight to CPW EARLY in the morning; 6 ... festival in the Johnson Athletics Center; I got to meet some really ... 's really incredible to see the diversity in student activities available at

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... 's coming at us from space, or b) out in space, that aren't what we ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  become the best statistician in the world may try to take every statistics ... this class? Will I thrive in the class? As much as I would love to be ... in that regard too. Most lab-based classes also require me to be in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a ... exhausted (Amy)... All in all, we're relieved that this part of the journey is over. Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck to each of you. :-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005