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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• 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 ... actually said that, though, I'd be met with, at best, a raised eyebrow and an innocent query of “What's...IAP?” Or, somewhat more likely, I'd receive a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is ... ’t do particularly well in any of them. I ended up with a 3.9/5.0 semester

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  only had a ridiculous amount of fun, but also left the City feeling ... wined and dined and stayed in a fancy hotel, the beauty of the whole event ... support your big ideas can become reality. On a side note, thanks to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... 's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  Hi there, blog readers! Now that we're a week into IAP, I have a ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... thesis advisor? Professor James Poterba. Now that he's a best

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are ... mathematics.” It seems that MIT is increasingly cited as a paragon for the ... visitors and family friends that MIT has a 50:50 gender ratio, I am always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... of Splash! MIT has a student group called the Educational Studies ... students teach local high schoolers a huge array of topics. Splash! is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... point is--there's a Halloween theme. Basically you could eat the cost of ... the rain. So, after a few minutes of brainstorming, we came up with this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a ... air ballons. There was even a beaver named Bud E. Beaver (TIM the Beaver

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a ... their guards. This entry is a response to two excellent comments from last time. Anonymous: "Sam, would you kindly post a piece of your music

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the fireplace. My actual purpose today is to talk a little bit about selecting a ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck ... down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• 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 I "grew up." Having been a computer nut since age four, I happily ... double major in both computer science and business. What a winning

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... . Greg, a bit exasperated after confronting an erstwhile chicken meal ... 's a math recitation. Eh, I can't understand that guy's accent anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... Newtonville Books' party so awesome? For one, there's going to be a musical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of history and perspective. Lex is one of our more active "cruft" (a term

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005