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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  morning to find rows and rows of laptops accompanied by nametags and setup ... then asked to log into Facebook. Afterward, we spent most of our lunch ... . But pictures of interesting things on computer screens make for terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems ... .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s

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

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  miss listening to Indie pop. I miss discovering all of the music that is ... the cold without socks or shoes on. It remains a mystery to this day ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1 ... the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  of entry posting (I'm still trying to blog every other day, which is ... 'll actually get to experience these types of adventures in less than a year, and now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry ... Roll) Awards linked to a class or department (e.g. History department

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... semester (although I haven't had the chance to build most of them... yet). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  upwards of 2750 entries (written over a little more than four years!), which translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts ... entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  the concrete blocks we were going to stack on top of it. We couldn ... coated in a layer of butter which took fucking forever to clean. I had to ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  one type of plane, the 737, and on each 737 there is one seat to rule ... . Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.   ... Row SSS- Super Special Seat (To be explained later, there is only 1 on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th ... Garfield has Spider-Man on lock. How to Win Friends and Influence People A ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  that all of their pizza is bad. Just remind me to order the mushroom and ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask ... 's 150th anniversary by members of the National Puzzlers' League Or an ... display at the Media Lab, or a bunch of physics demonstrations. I also hear

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger ... One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  on track to finish. And then… Dawn of Bad Ideas Weekend Saturday ... , one of which we spray painted white. We put some finishing touches on ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... , after which I have to run to Target and go shopping for pants and for toy

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  10. I won't have to think about the Crystal Field Theory... ...Which is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5.112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  to a lack of space or preexisting commitments. Eric believes that ... . On coming to MIT, she participated in CityDays, an annual orientation ... fraternity. "I wanted to change our cause to one that is closer to the hearts

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those ... ’t the worst thing– I don’t mean to imply that it is. There are plenty of ... before I graduate. My point is: oh my god I’m running out of semesters to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022