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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the mail. I'd prefer it if you post your design online and email me ([email protected]) a link to it, though if you aren't able to host it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  . MIT loves to trash Harvard, tell all sorts of stories about how Harvard ... to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it ... 's something hung up over the doors. It's a sign, it looks like it says

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules ... blog posts about it. (use our website's search tool! it's not too bad.) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:   ... math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  interesting to watch while taking STS.064J, and analyzing it for how he used ... ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... like physics, well keep reading, because you'll enjoy it. If you don ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  you goes a long way in helping you get through it. More questions about ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange ... beginning of freshman year - and run through it all :) ~*~ Part I: Pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  . Yum. No pictures though, it wasn't on my plate long enough to photograph ... , it was a pleasant experience, littered with naps and tasty food. The ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  how many I ate, but got Spagetti-o’s once and decided to call it a day there because of how bad it was. I’m very very happy I didn’t get soy ... IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  of it, but towards the end, I started to figure out how to start that ... of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and ... , they don't really mean it. They complain about hating school and hating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  over last year. Though the admissions office does not have an exact tally ... release EA decisions. It will likely be sometime in mid-December, but you ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  . It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus ... questions right; it’s crazy. And if you get a true/false question wrong; sorry ... brain-frying exam questions. Mastering Physics does function as a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  the landscaping, man), it does put a little more pressure on the staff and the court gets all muddy and before you know it your pants are wet ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in person. The fabled Weather Machine did its job on Thursday, so at least you ... ." If you went, you saw me and the other bloggers in all our glory. It was

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger's collective Spotify wrapped. It's crazy to me how much Spotify has just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Yesterday, (or was it a few days ago?) I reached into a pocket in my ... , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at La ... all that is metaphorical, it's safe to say that I've updated you on my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students. It is now covered in graffiti such as witty poetry and linear algebra homework, and it changes regularly throughout the year. Currently written on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  . It will include a picture of your truly, so you can all see how ... got into MIT, how hard can it be? I totally know what FTP is (file ... original blog for us, it has a "default banner" that says "replace this ASAP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006