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• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from ... , rec letters, and the Statement of Purpose. The SoP is kind of like the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  AM last night, and spent the extra hour catching up on some much ... an MP3 player program on it and started taking requests for shower ... the sheer exhiliration of cleansing myself to "When Doves Cry" and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up ... novel) and, of course, finals. Easier said than done? Yeah, just a little ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  and an assortment of other tools, just like climbing makes use of your hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is ... sheet deep enough for you to support yourself on, and kicking spikes on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  ) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni ... teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha ... testing mockups; customer evaluation of mockups; embodiment design; and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  University of Washington. She's also penned books and technical articles on ... software designer for computer network communication systems -- and one of ... deter her career. "Some people don't make as much of an impact on things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and ... you should all sign up for) and the rest of the time participating in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  resting after ~18 years of bruised knees and twisted ankles and such ... write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is ... in was the insane amount of stress and time that goes into The Job Hunt

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  of interesting presenters speaking on a large range of topics. Here ... :00 pm. You can see it on the schedule here. By the way, Chris P (King of ... huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on ... friends when they’re only taking a reasonable and recommended amount of ... of being in the intellectual and geographical center of where the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... five teams, and the teams competed against each other for the title of ... girls play football and guys are the cheerleaders). Points based on how

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through ... 's a creative energy that drives and develops the "universe" of a media ... pasted on the side of a bus. Having a dedicated 5+ hours/week to really

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... GRTs on my floor - hereon refered to as B1 (Burton 1, first floor of the Burton side of Burton-Conner). Greg and Katrina just joined our floor this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... . Day 5: Pavia, the titular city of the province and the city of my ... (the entire historic center of Pavia and this Vigoni cake is protected by

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  there, so I'm going to move on now and take some pictures of some other ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of those buildings on the north end of campus. Of course, I played it off

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  engineers, and there are a lot of us! Since February, about 150 mechanical ... this competition. Bryan and I had the pleasure of spending pretty much ... subsequent months are spent on engineering and building. It's an amazing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  , cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I ... aspirations of its architects, and by the local and global communities that have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to ... Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013