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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  now known as Harvard Business School. Today is a "virtual Monday" at MIT ... Mondays off during the spring semester, today we are actually following a ... keep this blog pretty much politically neutral on all issues except one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  how to escape from a well. Today's lesson? How to Foil a UFO Abduction ... -and-answer, and I know you guys have been holding back on me, so I just wanted to ... is very common for people to stop and help you out when they have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  shovel then they are not going to help. (Still working on this one ... If you live in Britain, or in a country sufficiently influenced by ... historically significant and culturally stupendous event: my birthday. Today, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  told students on the MIT early admitted live stream, ENJOY BEING A SENIOR ... that was stopping me was a 750 word essay on my greatest challenges that ... tours. I miss feeling out of place on those tours. I miss seeing MIT for

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

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  she was 12, matriculated at MIT when she was 14, and now at 17 plans on ... today’s traditional funding structures. Too often, researchers design ... on risky, long time horizon problems. With her fund IP Immortal, Laura

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  blocking progress on an important component on our project and I told my team ... ), you have undoubtedly seen endless bingo memes on people's instagram/facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on ... different things on campus. But having been here for a year, you realize that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were ... pretty off topic, so she’s restraining herself from going off on a tangent ... . The idea for today was to push off the dock, sail about halfway across

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open ... yourself to learn how to cook. This blog will give you a few tips on eating well on the fly, and will hopefully inspire you to do a little kitchen

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on ... MIT students here in rainy Harrisburg, PA), so I'm going to hold off on ... -winning composer John Harbison. I remember one time, a book was recommended to me on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on ... and experience the Internet as it was before group chats: a ... -is-offtopic-because-everything-is-offtopic asynchronous discussions with strangers on the Internet. Come post with us. You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this ... ever again. So here's a little something to help you cherish every little bit of today. Because quite frankly, there's nothing that makes you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... , and some help from Derreck ’10 (Thank you so much!), I finally made it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  Manchester United, whatever you like] Today I got back to reading domestic ... . Today's applications hailed from Arizona, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New York; about 15 applications so far today, all said. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance ... , although I wouldn’t recommend this strategy on exams. Anyways, let’s move on ... difficulty. For 8.01 and 8.02, weekly psets are posted online on the MITx

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... news. It was as an editor that he received a letter in the mail. The ... helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  -pressure probably helped me. I made the cut, for the live round. Turns out my roommate ... , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... went on to win the contest. I’m not jealous. Not at all. I think this is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  on it. As a prefrosh, I didn't know that much about the dorms so RBA was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... upperclassman that helps run the seminar and is a resource if you ever have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  administrative buildings, it's probably the only place that everyone on campus ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... be serious and silly at the same time. For example, today is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011