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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  ? Of landing inside the best Wall Street firm from which to write the ... game of life on the lowest difficulty setting there is. Other fortune ... . The soil in which it takes root is constituted of the moments you make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  likely of which is that the admissions office here has a somewhat unhealthy ... incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... grass is truly greener on your side of the fence. Just the belief that it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  half of the semester, which is Quantum I, because I want to learn quantum ... amounts of data on a process we want to model, under certain assumptions ... drop it. And I added topology on add date! which is about halfway through

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  taking a picture of a poster on a bathroom wall, which is exactly what I ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  , which are just groups of sequences, big or small, that are found to be ... of which aren't desperately important for me to explain. One fun one ... path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... to be the one to decide what the best use of your time is. I'd say most ... This is a long one. Apologies in advance! First, a quick response to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  means you crossed one or more streets from main campus to get there. W is ... estate too. There's not much rhyme or reason to building names off of main ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is ... the tenth or eleventh week of each academic term...which, as I ... of you still working on your final decision about where to enroll next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  it is on campus. The ability to "favorite" or "bookmark" events that ... MIT community is incredibly devoted to CPW, hosts a ton of excellent ... awesomeness is how to keep track of it all! In the past, we've given our CPW

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  change of pace. Living on campus is incredibly convenient, but I sometimes ... the middle of the day, so I head to a library or coffee shop and catch ... break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . Each hall has its own, and the dorm is the umbrella to each of those ... -for-yourself. This is great for eating on a budget, dealing with allergies, or learning ... of a single time where everyone on hall is asleep during the semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything ... analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class on origami? Lasers? Neuropharmacology? Over the course of 21 hours
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... writing about the show. World of Wires is such an intriguing show. I did a fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... Blogs wide game of Funny Farm. It is pretty much impossible to solve ... , largely consisting of doing nothing, making random trips to Steak 'N Shake

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  's called -- which is calculating the energy of bonded atoms vibrating or ... acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an ... ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or ... on whose behalf you can send mail and of which you are the only member

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... whom is about as obsessed with xkcd as I am, so he showed it to me on his ... 's not, I do have two quick pieces of advice I would like to share before I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  lot better prepared to be a working adult in a software or a research ... bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  pursuit of some discoveries, which I hoped to make.” (For context, this is ... upperclassmen on your hall or in your major provide some amount of support to ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  media is unsatisfying and how to best address that dissatisfaction. or, to ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... or some kind of conflict, external or internal), and through this

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022