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Blog / Academics & Research
A Visit to eBay
On Sunday, Phil (MIT '07), Irene (MIT '08), and I (MIT '07) got lunch with our friend Carter (MIT '07), who is interning for Apple this summer ... consulting firm, and is working on the eBay account. The eBay complex reminds -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Comments 3999 & 4000
professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most ... --based on the big content producers' original characters. This is -
Blog / Miscellaneous
5 days to May 2
you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect -
Blog / Admissions
International Selection Day 1
meeting on Friday with the International Students Association (ISA ... student community. The ISA also puts on some great events, including the I -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research -
Blog / Admissions
New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…
Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Writer’s Bloc
Birtolo's first novel is now available on Amazon -- all of you fantasy fans ... at work on his second novel. Another friend of mine from my undergrad -
Blog / Admissions
2,822 applications
a target on this number). We will go into committee about a week and a ... 'll first start admitting the Class of 2009. More on this as the day draws -
Blog / Admissions
What’s the big deal about 40^2?
moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now ... has scores that are fine, let's move on," but it didn't really make an -
FAQ / Academics and research
Do most students complete a UROP?
who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of ... reactor (the only one of its kind located on the campus of a major research -
Blog / Blog Projects
ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES
person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... fluctuate. Some of us will be running CPW events on-campus, and most of us are going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT
April, no rehearsal on Presidents’ Day, etc. – until suddenly: “There will also be no rehearsal on Wednesday, February 19. There will be a ... almost 2 million subscribers on YouTube and TikTok. Yo-Yo is one of, if -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)
up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the meantime a girlie can try"]No guarantees on photos for the rest of the night ... THEY BROUGHT A REAL FIREFIGHTER ON STAGE... KINDA COOL?? okAYYYYY vortex -
Blog / MIT Life
can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall
October, and kept working on it for the next few weeks. And then months. And ... guess it’s better late than never, so here’s that blog: On Monday ... the day, then spent my free hour on a hallway bench, then continued on -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building
constraints, including a bar on [annotation note="aka murals that go directly on ... this year. after renewal, students won't be able to mural directly on the ... paint freely in a removable way. emphasis on removable. unfortunately -
Blog / Uncategorized
[guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident
housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th ... first frosh arrived on August 19th. The last upperclassmen trickled in on ... was a name and cultural presence on the east side, it was merely a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp
(mechanical engineering) with a focus on learning machines. I live in Next House. I am Vietnamese and Filipino and a first-gen immigrant on both sides ... ’s part of what makes things exhilarating or exhausting, depending on the -
Blog / Extracurriculars
self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube
I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... choreography videos for K-Pop songs were available on YouTube for me to learn, so ... strength? will build on skills I already have? do I like the song? do -
Blog / Life after MIT
Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19
I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so