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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  year with a cute new cover! This year, mine (the one on the right), had a ... cross outs doesn't necessarily correlate with how busy a week actually is ... /less filled with time, we were, in fact, getting progressively more and more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  . This past year, I've been increasingly fascinated with blockchain technology. A blockchain is basically a list of records linked together with ... knew I wanted to code something so I was going to try my luck with that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  you are reading right now, because we’re obsessed with these blogs! Now ... interactions about 3 weeks ago with some very artsy 2021s. FAP – which obviously ... seniors?” to which we then replied with laughter and that same hesitation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections ... , hey, I produced that! With some help, but yeah that was me! And then in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  : I was hoping to write to you today with some uplifting news. Yet, as I ... personally with each of the affected individuals we are aware of. If you know ... ’s industrial revolution. With classic American ingenuity and drive, our graduates

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  long day of exploration. The third day was packed with adventure ... --fortunately, we got lucky with clear skies through which the lights were visible ... friends to go on the trip with me, I sent an email that said "there is a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  combine pro-social elements with individual incentives towards achievement ... 't very intense or technical, so I am pretty confident I can stick with all ... behavior and performance of firms in markets, with a particular focus on

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  curling (played with a block of ice and some mops), a silly-string face ... (with all its attendant historical nerdiness) and the reason I enjoyed MIT ... during orientation what my major was, I could have answered with any one of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  began with a walk across the front of the room demonstrating a "switch," a ... . Solving racism has less to do with politics and more to do with--look around ... show. If you're not interacting with and befriending people who don

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  is, explore Boston and other parts of Massachusetts with friends. We ... wonderful). I will soon make time to cook collaboratively with friends. Even ... even have a new mountain on campus that people climb with a fervor of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  happy. And IAP has come with a fair amount of work, but not nearly enough ... much snow there. Let’s see. Dorm, warm. Kitchen, toasty. With fridges ... never really done anything with snow beyond stare at it and flee from it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  from a library book about reproductive biology, with a degree of ... mother, who helps children with special needs navigate elementary school ... think about/with/through it. For more than ten years I've taught at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  's monasteries and monastic libraries, leaving us with single digit numbers of ... how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... English texts, and the riddles that Bilbo exchanges with Gollum in The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  -lined asphalt to Honey Pot Hills Orchards. Laden with sleepy MIT students, the ... trees heavy with fruits. Before we began hoarding apples left and right ... apple picking skills, I stuck with my own improvised method. I call it the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  large room sprawling with shelves and people and signs hanging from the ceilings. He moves around with purpose until he finds what partly holds the ... wistfully figured, “Gee, life sure is comfy in here with all these new friends

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  , on Thursday, my first day off, I was faced with the conundrum -- or ... semester. The class meets jointly with a similar one offered by the course 20 ... cell phone number given out, the level of engagement with the students no

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  first approached 2.00b with a sense of trepidation.  Group projects in ... as a moderate introvert, I was quite familiar with the research about ... go with the ideas stated most loudly, rather than the best ideas

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying ... last place" kind of deal didn't jibe with me. And I guess it didn't jibe with many other premeds that I know, because that preconceived notion of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  minute. Last minute people are playing with fire, and playing with fire isn ... flexible with your teachers and counselors because we know they are super busy. We are less flexible with applicants because we assume you're

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  figuring out my routine here. Can I start with the basics? Sleeping, eating ... high-up nest with a great look-out. I have the bottom bunk, and I ... . Coexisting with the sage, rosemary and mint I bought for a dollar a plant, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012