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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  hour event. Each college fair I do seems to have one question that gets ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... by recent graduates/interviewers Ed and Jen, both of whom are off to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?

  

  Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read comic books? Batman was by far my favorite superhero. Poll of the day ... : 1. Batman 2. Invisibility This entry is partially inspired by the

  • by Bryan
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... overwhelmed by the barbarians (thank you Dictionary.com for your invaluable

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... seeing it. At the very least, you’ll get to see people run through a wall ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  about being a cast member: the actual show. The reason I’m only getting to ... single helps me get back to my priorities” and “my body can run a half ... Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  closer you get to receiving your admissions decisions, the easier it ... energy into doing it for me. If you by any chance like to solve puzzles ... were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long ... I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  or brush it aside, it’s easy to get bogged down in the details from ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... , sigh, and shut the fridge. Two minutes later, I return to the fridge

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  multiplies the list of ingredients by whatever fraction necessary to feed the ... "Introduction to Pulsars". Basically: classes inspired by my summer research ... , I make the trek across the river - it's refreshing to get off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically ... quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I ... you down the toilet and drag you out by ...well, you get the imagery. At ... took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  limit by too much. Don't feel that you need to fill up white space; word ... . ------------------------------------- Edward wrote: "I wanted to send an additional recommendation by a close pal ... attempt at getting to know the whole student?" Absolutely. The more context

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  Next’s dining hall to grab breakfast, and by the time we’d finished ... (Wednesday, 12/6), but in the last fiveish days leading up to Wednesday it switched to just cloudy. I gave up hope. I resigned myself to an incredibly

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  pretty good description. There's nothing more to add, except to stop by the ... heading to the tunnels. If you're interested in learning more about/getting ... CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some ... 153 minutes before the deadline to sign up for the Simmons Retreat, I ... I couldn’t go—I had promised to go to a Puzzle Club event on Monday

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024