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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  reflecting on what has inherent value to you, relative to your own aspirations ... Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  second round, discussions started to get more energetic. Interestingly, two ... teams that hadn’t yet made a satellite scrambled to get the pieces they ... and the negotiation phase began, teams jumped out of their chairs to get

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... math, and now it's paying off. He's preparing to leave for Boston on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our wait list this year. Every year, we always plan ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I ... , MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home ... sophomore Emily TenCate almost immediately put together an initiative to buy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Anthony Rindone A local first generation college student.

  

  Revere's top grad bound for MIT By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item ... our salvation," Rindone plans to remind his varied group of fellow seniors. "The fact is our high school memories are going to be very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics ... here. This story is also accompanied by three strategies I thought were

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an undergraduate/graduate class which uses programming to design stuff. We learned

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  progress, to improve their writing by revising, to read the work of ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up ... class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  civic media THING I SAW: data visualization by web du bois THING I MADE ... learning is like money laundering for tech - by maciej ceglowski "We should not listen to people who promise to make Mars safe for human habitation

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  ’t get off at MIT. I love living in a city, and I love being able to ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... tomorrow. I am finally going to get to learn about satellite communications ... Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  city's limit by designing the tower to rest on several stilts. The images ... Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed to see who could climb up the 18-story Green Building the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... - House of Poo Poo it was. Welcome to House of Poo Poo, aka Toilet Special

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to ... help. Isn't that weird? Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to tell ... they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  : This is what it used to take to get in to MIT-definitely a lot less work ... into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011