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• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  supposed to just know where the lounge for our newly declared majors was, and ... get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I felt like it or not, I was a sophomore. But of course, with the speed at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  comes from how SnowDays draws the snowflake at around one cut per frame, so you're looking at how it's changed over each cut. There's a trick ... . Even if you don't close up the cut, SnowDays will close it for you. If

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... one another back in the 1970’s, now kept in the Archives for future ... major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  mischief every time I jump on at 9:05 am. Fix my home-cut bangs in the video ... colored pen, looking out the window at a Cambridge street below. Ambulances ... , smile when someone makes a joke, grimace at a new friend when scary long

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  experience than just sitting somewhere and psetting together for hours on end ... is an Asian fusion place that used to be called Thelonious Monkfish for ... ) grilled cheese place by day, and turns into a barcade at night. I didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your ... ."]she's probably the one who shipped extras overnight so they'd be at your hotel in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  and won't be for a while. I did not submit any kind of portfolio, but I ... Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that ... : working desk at MacGregor. (If you look closely at the video, Alex is in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear ... simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) Although you may not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  contact me for any info you want about queer life at MIT. The address is in ... dedicated queer space at MIT. They host a lot of events such as open houses ... rare for me since I am an EXTREMELY shy person. He also pushed me to be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , more than two, but only two matter here) lists in MailChimp for any given admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  away at problem sets or studying. For a much better (and more musical ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... simply to not do an assignment, or not study for a test. One might do that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble ... The scene: Friday morning, about 9:10am Me: *Sits down at table with ... optimize the design of the bridge. Now, I’m a news editor for The Tech (MIT

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  year he used his computer skills to obtain an internship at a local ... things. When he got a new computer for his birthday and we finally upgraded ... solving, Computer Science was what I was really looking for. A few months

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  over the bridge, there was a faint glow of bonfires. Always game for a good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was ... , so we headed down intending to take over their fire and chill for a bit

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  message from her asking if I had ever attended any classes at the Russian ... you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... 's hard to accept brilliance at face value when, well, sub-A level grades on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... here, at this moment in time. Do you know how hard you've worked up until ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... , where all my media stops: I was playing for the rest of the night and, as ... at the end was definitely occupied prior to being sat upon: Though the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to ... . A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm ... semester for me). Anyways, that's why I'm back. Also, I really like poems ... they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket of these cats not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008