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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  questions until the day before the dorm decision form was released for ... ?? what) A couple days later, I started the data analysis (instead of ... shouldn't be very surprising! 91.7% — Random, naming a nearby grocery

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  the day before, or just had too much random stuff to think about that ... day and 1/2 of a letter grade penalty per day for late submissions. I ... for lab submission and check-off: There is a 1-point/day late penalty

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  , these radomes are safe to enter to do maintenance... or just look around ... 's often very windy, and that day it was about -8 degrees C. But inside the ... .) at those points. -EME, or Earth-Moon-Earth communication. Bouncing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  'Germany 2010' album on my computer currently contains 1,563 photos - and a million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  . Please do not harass your teachers or counselors if you don't yet see a ... the past preferred to release decisions on a Saturday; December 13 or December 20 would be the likely dates, but it could be any day in December

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I got an average of 7 hours of sleep per night, and even walked outside every day (Figure 1). March is notorious for pre-spring break exams ... Academic Weeks and 1 Vacation Week The number of steps taken in a day is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  . Gmail. Gmail. Gmail. Facebook. Gmail. Facebook. Gmail. Scroll scroll scroll. Gmail. NYTimes. NYTimes. xkcd. Facebook. Gmail. Your eyelids are ... . You haven't the faintest idea who those people are, or what that little

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  CPW looked something like this: 2.5 Bawls sodas 2 red bulls 1 Sobe energy drink 1 energy drink water thing 5 cups of coffee I slept 5 hours over the course of CPW. 1 hour on purpose, 4 hours on accident (which is

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a ... (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very ... was, or did. I don't think I ever actually went to NASA; maybe I went to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  America on a budget of $40 a day or careening through her patented 30-minute ... Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... days during finals week last term and now I'm down to an average of three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  number is hard: do you count distinct classes, or should you weigh classes ... the whole semester, or several projects. Problem set classes Consider ... . Some, instead of saying "midterm" or "final", say, "quiz" or "exam", or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which ... decisions, 3/14, 6:28pm in Boston (Pi Day, Tau Time). 3/14, 11:28pm in Nigeria ... nervousness. Slices of optimism. Slices of pessimism. It really only added to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Varsity Blogging As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers -…

  

  some belated b-day wishes when you get a chance... Also - I'm still accepting pictures for this entry (and just added two new ones!).

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  day. things are so crazy here at mit right now. i guess i’m lucky that i ... lot of time thinking about you over the next few days. i wonder how all ... through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  _n, where T_n > 5 minutes from now. A week or so ago, Becky from somewhere ... Facebook buddy. (Curmudgeonly aside: It's a sad, sad world when I get more Facebook friend requests than personal emails. Also, you kids get off my lawn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  International Airport over several days right before Thanksgiving, Winter, or ... the weekend, like Walden Pond or Cape Cod. My friend Anthony '10 found ... look something like this: In addition to subways (which cost $1.70 to $2

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  . More bloggers were added because they worked in the admissions office, or ... , Dr. Berkowski, is fantastic. The other day in lecture she put up the ... pick random people on campus, do you need connections, or what? Way back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  eight hour eating window throughout the day (typically 1pm to 9pm). I ... eat after 9pm or eat an unnecessary amount of rice in a day when I ... days or freezer for up to 2 months. Thaw on rack before gently pulling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles ... should desire a GPA of 0.2/5.0 or so. Conventional wisdom for the ... ). Y: Should I take 8.07 or 18.100B? K: Math! Y: I don't know if I want

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009