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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  sets, as I love the freedom of expression and the absence of a "right ... colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and ... 't. This is a list of the HASS classes I have taken up to this term and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  prototype detector. Under the guidance of Professor Bernd Surrow and a postdoc ... software to examine the foils from CERN and Bates. As part of her senior ... such as its gain and lifetime. Once the findings of her study are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  you can see the colors of their towels, and you still can't see the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... -mile of river between us and Boston helps a lot in keeping us and the city

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  a headache and wake up still with a headache. It's the first time in ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  thought I was cool and my writing was cool from the very first days when we ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/Laura.shtml" because like...just no. Anyway, the point is, as a result of this, Ben and ... card out of the organizer on his desk, flipped it over and grabbed a pen ... , stuck it in the front pocket of my messenger bag, and forgot about it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... and all, but that does not have to be where the heart of the ... Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  my family and the first to pursue a graduate degree; it’s the system ... rapper and the time I went to his first concert, or the times I’ve spent ... I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  . We part from the rest of the people and call an Uber to get to our ... bags with some of their masalas and custard!  At the same time, after ... to find them. The rest of us choose food over Neil and leave for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Univac, Louis Rader. At the time Univac was a unit of Sperry-Rand and the ... Govern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... (in the interest of full disclosure) you should know that we will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  my horizons and get out of my comfort zone. Over the past three years ... layering and fast drying time. During the beginning of the pandemic in my ... —then spend dozens of hours refining even the smallest details. For my first few

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  beginning of "pill" and the middle of "spill". If you're a native English ... using minimal pairs, we can count the number of consonants and vowels in a ... between the number of a language's phonemes and features like syllable size

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... Extraordinaire 7) Matt 8) Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment (And I'm taking the ... Edison, writer and master wordsmith 4) Bryan Nance, Director of Minority

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... “college is the best four years of your life” and i think that’s an extremely ... the disease of loneliness, good weather and shimmering skyscrapers do me

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side ... previously learned that the east side of campus has an unusually high ... how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  spirits were a little soured by the first day, which I spent half of filling ... hall in the middle of the night... ...and frolicked in the snow, a ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  period and couldn't bear the thought of going to class. So, unable to face ... BANG!, pull the trigger all the way back and keep sight on target even ... the magazine." He uses the same intonation and inflection patterns every

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each ... - the research being done, the classes offered, and the opportunities ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010