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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  abysmal depths of the Internet, and didn't capitalize any proper nouns in ... jumble of text and pictures stuffed into the semblance of an admissions ... Course 2 or 6 major for the rest of eternity, or at least until someone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher ... respect, understand, and integrate the importance of social production and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading ... their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2017. If there's an

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  and it's my first class of the day - suffice it to say that because of ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: The 2016 Siemens Competition is now open

  

  limited to) those listed on our enrichment opportunities page. One of these ... they are currently working on or to begin research now with the goal of ... Resources page. The deadline for submission is September 20th, 2016. Just

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... applications and the busy schedules of the five students. Following the ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of ... sincere when I say that those were seven of the happiest, most peaceful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with murals. Some of these are also animated! If you use the Artivive app and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... first asks: "Hey, how's it going?" Confidently (but also tiredly), the ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... struggling to get the whole thing to fit together just right. All of their ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was ... by the prospects of attending such a seemingly homogenous academic

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  crazier. Coming this week: the rest of the Machine Tools Class, my first 18 ... After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  responsibilities in the Admissions office and my assumption of said responsibilities for this period of 12 months.) By the way, my name is Chris too ... might see me in person) is the clever hallway trick of, "I don't remember

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... did more research on the University of Chicago. They are weird. Really

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  we reached our first temple before it got to the back of the bus and I ... . As the first Zen Buddhist temple out of several we had to visit that ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate director of MISTI, MIT's international studies program. The course is held in ... !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  MIT campus. Over the course of 24 hours, attendees form teams, enjoy ... MIT 2017 will take place this fall, over the weekend of September 16-17, 2017 ... (check out the animated GIFs on our social media pages). In our newest

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  (Taylor’s Version) // talked about the Vault tracks, the lyric change, the ... uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood ... it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via ... ; now, 9 days later, it has filtered through the rest of the Internet back ... (I am tracking this very closely and rigorously) supporting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011