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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  brought to you by Sahar H. '17, founder of the Sleep is for the Strong ... moments. That’s something that I really want to work hard to make sure is ... to set unrealistic expectations for myself. I’ve been trying to make my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  open to it. It's 11:44 am right now and there are 24 hours and 30 minutes ... 17.5 minutes, and that you're probably too excited to sleep tonight ... ,                                                                                                                                                 Anastassia TED Talks TED talks, for those unfamilar, are "riveting talks by

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  pm but I had to be back in Boston by 5 to help set up for the MIT $100K ... , journalists, tech bloggers, and fellow student entrepreneurs. I listened to CEOs ... to have attended Disrupt and to have made new friendships in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Disney but not enough to be like “okay I’m going to move to LA and make ... they sold to make a living. They let us come in and see how they lived ... , from characters, to the music. Everything we did was trying to make sure

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05... ------------------------------------- Sendie wrote: "If the last SAT scores I sent to MIT was November, do I have to send the December scores again or will collegeboard still be sending

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  unhealthy desserts, so I made sure to break the trend by mixing prodigious ... genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week ... to person before Professor Minicozzi arrived: Of course, this hack

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the BioMedical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  this with Sara '11, MA born and raised, and quickly began to realize that ... my classmates. Granted, by now we've all listened to Dropkick Murphys ... when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  less ice due to the generous salting. The salt trucks have come by so ... :59 [0.0 miles from home] The doors to Next House have been opened, by me ... or 4W, depending on who you ask. Among many things, I am fortunate to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... to Killarney. I hiked about 4 miles of the Kerry Way before it began to get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... (except November scores, which we expect to receive shortly), and, if ... time. We will wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... Oxford comma advocate.  Gotta stick to some principles in life.) And so I decided it was time to write another blog post. What would present-day-56

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They ... : -- <3! (full credit to whoever built these!) -- P.S. I'm currently scrambling to finish the Sketchbook Project (introduced in this post), and this

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  to move with sliders. Finally, we had to create the mesh by parsing ... .youtube.com/watch?v=dDeEmtCrhdc[/embed] Ray Tracing Ray tracing is a technique to render 3D scenes by shooting ... semester!!! Also, how did time move so quickly that we are about to enter our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There ... to that very exciting sentence above, just go here. Now, here's an

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  calibrations to earn a certain grade. Rather, you must make a defensible ... lines “I’m going to try to make a step function in your data” – my ... experiment, there are only 3 hours of data collection (as opposed to the normal

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  ESP has been renovating their website and now I can't seem to find it ... - anyone who passed by was forced to blow up a balloon or two or 75. We ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  To go along with Chris' entry about excitement for the unveiling of ... Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen ... members from the classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932. Their mission was to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  perfunctory to energetic and adorably unabashed. But by some stroke of luck he ... push them open. When he turned, the sight took a while to make sense to ... the left wall and began to sob. “This makes no sense,” he mumbled. “No

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014