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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  permanent murals can make a space inhospitable. the ability to take away and ... with regulations. they get too attached to their murals, which makes ... 's tendency to set off fire alarms. painted by a '25, commemorates C2's

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after ... used to be fun to care about these things. it felt like i was making a ... months. by being hall chair, by running events, by pushing people to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  applications are up 10%) We are working as quickly as possible to process all of ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  deviation will almost surely be corrected by another deviation to the right ... the value of using simple external metrics to make important personal ... there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  'm also going to date this post by saying this, but Nintendo is going to ... Hello! Just giving a quick update on what's going on with my life and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  away from other people. It's ok to have a jam session all by yourself. It's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their enrollment decision. If you're still undecided: How can we help you make your ... 's okay, we know you're making the best choice for yourself), or to request

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm ... study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  from it to the 8.01 students. I got the original picture from the page ... video lectures, you should! It's awesome being able to actually watch the lectures." -- Adam, Wisconsin Thanks to Jane, Aditya, Adam, and everyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/. This page includes more ... of Student Pugwash. Pugwash exists to address the effects of science ... Revolution) and STS.310 (Introduction to the History of Science). If I had the

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  accomplished, and by all that you aspire to do as your lives progress. For all of ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... been completely foreign to some of them - and that’s okay. Because making ... would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  've got to make me cackle. ... your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  refer to rooms within buildings by their numbers. It's kind of bewildering ... Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... been invented over the last 20 years has been invented." (Reminder to ... how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  everything familiar to me. Until then, my summers had been taken up by academic ... “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8 ... Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  than I stood to lose by bringing him in. These are busy guys. But they ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  when necessary while also being able to place pigments down quickly. I ... grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021