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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  there's one item I've been staring at guiltily for far too long: blogging. As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  now it’s going up months late” series! Today’s topic: winter break :D ... down in the grass. It was 30˚F, and there were a few stars visible ... of goose sh!t in it. Which means that I had been lying in a LOT OF

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... yourself out there It's up to you to start forming relationships. Ask the ... . Granted, not all of it may need to be heard, or be correct, but you needn't be

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a ... “how are you doing”s lacking response.   The shy, tanned girl stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... it with the equations in this paper but this sounds like a lot more ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  ; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It ... "yield"), we admitted 1548 students. However, it isn't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  first asks: "Hey, how's it going?" Confidently (but also tiredly), the ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... units." Checkmate. The victor's sub sandwich is up, he grabs it and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  enthusiastic!) offer. At long last, the deciding is almost done. Every year, we plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are aiming ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many ... ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  , kind of overwhelmed, and kind of really not sure how it’s all going to go ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... this year, so I know it’s a bit eager to be starting to write already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  telling it because i find it funny. how a silly little review can make a ... side note, it helps me better understand how language forms (get ... communities and because it is funnier, the tungsten cube monologue has stuck

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... the 2009 Young (under 35) Innovator of the Year. It's my former GRT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... ? Failing. It might sound a little weird, but I came here certain that if

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  costume, there’s a forty-minute time limit on how long one person can wear ... , naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it ... good news. And that’s pretty much how, one week after starting classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  the Tenth Labor of Herakles and Geryoneis, Stesichorus "How does ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  don't yet have a sense of how students are using it, or finding it ... trend - not by our efforts, but by the natural ebb and flow of how people ... box called the Wall. It was open only to college students, and you could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... will tell you about it today a few months ago i had a problem. the ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... intricacies of turbulent flow, how it disrupts normal optics, and a million ... at the bottom. And suddenly I wondered, why is it white? So I sat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006