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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I'm taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... theater to painting to game design--you name it. I even found a HASS that

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , mailing lists haven't been in vogue since before Nick Carter was but a twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy ... mailing lists at MIT, each dealing with countless subjects: web development

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... Changes, Described by a Frosh." _______________________________ Good news ... now have a signed book collection. Chuck Palahniuk 7/17 My favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and ... -technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired ... fucking exhausted. My typical day looks a little bit like this: Wake up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I took my life day by day, moment by moment. 2018 was a year of many ... Championships in San Jose, CA Stayed with a host family in Germany while

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  're running a web server off of a virtual machine, and as we've ... MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their ... , while also working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food choices or food policy through a medium such as a pamphlet, lesson plan ... some form of activism around food justice, but writing a blog post seemed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  and no science class. Help me pick a science class! Help me seriously ... -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) (14N-112) ______ Writing an autobiography is a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  to develop the Uno, set up a web site and filed for patents in several ... some general demographic data in the freshman class profile, giving a ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... their MIT years.  Before MIT, I had a lot of false starts with strength ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  . It is a bad bill, which if enacted would become bad law: bad law with ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  ). Small wonder that I still recall those warm-hued summer days with a mellow ... areas. Amongst a vast repertoire of somnolent performances, a few ... Mechanical Engineering Pre-Orientation Program, I was shuttled off on a tour of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a ... philosophy is. At a high level, the strategy is the same we've had for at this point decades: we want to build a site that a) provides useful information

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing ... , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a second thought. I write math handouts and make web apps and stuff, but no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became super sick and ended up having to undergo surgery a week after that blog ... tell you all about the experience. (Now would also be a great time to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  shopped around for a few different course 6 classes in the first week of the ... here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole ... interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005