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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  quality (polished.pdf) and length (30 pages?!) of the other reports turned ... semester was the first time that D-Lab: Education was being offered, and I ... the design process with introductions, a lot of questioning, and very

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... corner of a dark and dirty establishment, the guitarist howling the blues ... 's concert. A lot of the audience thinned out after MITWE left the stage, and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  side of campus, viewed from the courtyard outside Medical (first three ... off the Infinite, many of which have massive windows and are often empty ... in front of it, and the Harvard Bridge is on the right behind the trees

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  became streaks down the dry skin of my cheek. And eventually became a loud ... -encompassing as pain and fear. Different kinds of tears ran down my cheek as the ... . "Unity in the face of diversity." And for that, I say Thank You. After the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  we reached our first temple before it got to the back of the bus and I ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  ) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20 ... between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that ... all of the lecture notes for a unit and copy down virtually everything

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and ... trend - not by our efforts, but by the natural ebb and flow of how people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of ... . The first set of dresses already blew my mind: (Wired - "Our dress is ... flyers at the expanded hem of the skirt, to the sharp, skintight and clean

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  Medical shares your pain (or your sense of humor): And I guess the editors ... at MIT in the first place. Personally, my school career - and perhaps ... the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  now at the point in the year where we need to put in lots and lots of ... . Adelaide and I discussed famous FIRST figures on the Saferide, and at the ... different type of burger is named after a state, and Sam can name the toppings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... digest the words. And then the first folders hit the table, and we begin ... here. Anthony captures a stunning picture of me and MadMatt towards the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  -page paper and a powerpoint presentation on the subject, in four weeks ... about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... , and listen to some Brian Eno while contemplating the meaning of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in ... jumble of text and pictures stuffed into the semblance of an admissions ... finds the JPG file and does some photoshopping (whichever one comes first

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of ... the first full week of classes, and looking back on all the things I did ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were ... yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of ... no order whatsoever isn't all fun and games, though -- I spent the two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog ... entirely in the right frame of mind, if the phone rang and I was more than an

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  fathers are seen clutching copies of Obama's speeches on the densyas and ... the extra serving of noodles into the bowl, and it's like ordering ... really like Chinese and Korean food. For example, the frequency of Chinese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  a whole pot of oatmeal on the sidewalk, Talking to a biker and a rec ... ... [carousel image1="71474" image2="71475" /] the first pages of the yellow ... and is out-of-tune with much of the world."]The Slow Regard of Silent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... literature in France, and the anthropology of medicine (among other things ... , Proust, LGBT history and the politics of food saw lots of plays made a

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped establish the genre of psychedelic rock and catalyze the Summer of Love, but ... into 60s lore and learning about the inception of my favorite music was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022