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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  very few undergrads (Now I'm excited a lot more of my undergrad friends ... building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time ... -Shyduroff, Douglas Ling, and Peter Mui. They envisioned a cross-campus event that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring the imagined animalistic avatars of some MIT courses, programs, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  matched with a binding school and must attend your Match school. You could be matched with a non-binding school (MIT). In this case, you may
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... everyone a place to go for Thanksgiving dinner, and we tell residents to feel

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub specialty of Mechanical Engineering called Course “2A”) and I’ve only now been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  A few thoughts from this week-- The rapid onset of graduation seems ... to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... , short for Women's Independent Living Group. Last summer, there was a fire ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ., and Th., ‘19, emerged in a grand procession. The leader, in a furry cap reminiscent of Russian monarch fashion, carried a golden cardboard crown on a ... cheered. Hugs followed. Solar Car Captain P. ‘17 presented me with a very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  remember when I was a prefrosh (in 2008...ouch), I dreamed of one day being ... , right? But I quickly learned that leading a high school club or two is very different from leading a team of engineers in a technical project

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of classmates played the pieces. MIND BLOWN. I had no idea a flute could sound so

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural defense against predators -- since it is a large prime number, no potential predator could possibly prey on the cicada without also evolving into a 17

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad ... in Pasadena. I felt dumb, but I hung out at Rax's house for a few hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design ... professional responsibilities and ethics. A required on-line evaluation is given

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012