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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to get in for another few months. I guess I just got lucky. (*How did I ... when Sam came by and asked if I wanted to go to PourHouse for burgers ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were ... get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... get hit smack in the face within a mere minute by a squash ball

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... installation of a web server. I worked for two hours before hurrying over to the ... community, and I have a professional Navy atmosphere to prepare me for my

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for ... doing things well to try to get a return offer, I could essentially focus ... by emceeing for fun events and running meetings. I have grad school

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  Act of 1957 by speaking in from of the Senate for 24 hours and 18 ... moved back to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I'm here for three days trying to get my bearings, shop for travel-appropriate items, and see every single

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... for me, I’ll be going to Beijing, China. I’ve been looking at MISTI ... can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate ... ;advantageous" for being recognized. But the decision to write in German wasn't ... lies more in the decision to write in German in the first place. By

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation ... first day of the term where all the first year students to the university ... to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... to find room for all of the many, many terrific applicants. But it also ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ' technical, designed and built by technical people for technical reasons. But ... ; students not assigned to research for that week will write a short blog post ... , broadly speaking. I was drawn to CMS/W for my own graduate school experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  , so we headed down intending to take over their fire and chill for a bit ... of rural Vietnam, inhabited in the day by water buffalo, seemed to turn ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  did not have enough time for everything I wanted to do this past ... "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... you a general outline for how to write a program, which you would then

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  escapes from the tennis courts to a vast Briggs Field trademarked by the ... ? (Carved by Andrew Hoy '10) Do you see what's in here? To no surprise ... in the wee hours is hard to come by around here. -- 3 Days before the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  they ought to be in museums, but were instead bartered and sold by ... . For valuable volumes, they started at $500, increased to $2,500, $7 ... Certificate of Italy” by King George I of England could match that. Way to go

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  for you all to enjoy. They're Mexican breakfast pastries with chocolate ... To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... summer, for me to build and test batteries that wouldn't explode or melt or ... last time I applied for one in their group.) You might not get an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... much get to watch videos in every class and check out various photographs ... 15 minutes for some teenagers at Elkins High School to make it :) The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... back to the hackathon last night, we stayed up for hours, building the ... few hours before I had to get up to meet Drew. I find him and his

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  warning before you get on the MIT Weekend Grocery Shuttle (loops around to ... is to try both of them for yourself. Life is hard, I know.] - Pepper ... to take this dish on a honeymoon by the time she finished. I was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009