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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I'd have to run faster than the rotation of the earth. I spent the rest of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he ... the index finger of his right hand. All 17 of his grandkids knew what ... 's spend this time examining the lesser-discussed problems of these surveys

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  all the schools withstanding rounds and rounds of forms and sparring ... half of the grand plan is moving fast on track. Two weeks ago, the MIT ... '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe ... year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the cellular/molecular neurobiology type, because that's her field of interest

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  of it. having exhausted the poetry workshops offered at MIT, i am ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  also offers to sell me no less than three pounds of tiny dried shrimp, at ... speaks Taishanese (a variant of Cantonese) and I picked up impressively ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction ... , Wendy's High School Heisman) Volunteering (e.g. Prudential Spirit of ... One new section of our application this year distinguishes between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  with a large group of people. After a certain degree of collective sleep ... yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... are reading this post. If you are in high school, you may be looking for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP ... My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... . I asked some people what they were doing over IAP to show some of ... styles and also learn about the history of Chinese calligraphy. you make

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... Landier of the Stern School of Business at New York University went beyond ... discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  believes will negatively affect his chances of getting into a "good school ... comments of his high school classmates who intimated that he was only ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... Florida for a week. We saw a high school friend one of the days and in a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017