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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  footing the bill. ;) He has a video of his prototype plane-tracking thingy ... end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It ... -founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition.  Note: this post was originally ... broad discussion of the whole universe.  Professor Flowers’ model of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  into a handful of letters: [annotation note="Office of the First Year ... the first 90 seconds. Before long, one of us (me) succumbed to our (my ... page, but otherwise we can move onwards to the next acronym in the first

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... . The novelty of the first big snow (or the first few big snows) of the ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  . If you ever want a brilliant critical review of the first 10 minutes ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... -saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  home of a Baltimore alum, the first gathering will be Saturday (March 24 ... Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Japanese tradition, the first dream of the New Year can predict the dreamer ... incidence of these accidents from peaking, the Japanese railway authorities ... inspired Japanese to resume the study of English. The President's notable

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... last semester when i felt this sense of clarity regarding the fact that ... coolness of the UROP that i had done that year, which i hadn't thought about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Section 2 of the application (I got a higher math score the first time ... what the name of Nance's baby is? We're very curious =D" I think I'm at ... actually involved in selecting the class of 2010??" You can view some of them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you ... training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  -some page book, you should just read “The Disadvantages of an Elite ... : watching fireworks over the Charles during my first (and only) 4th of July in ... -packed with new things. But then the first month of freshman year seemed to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  the final numbers- aka # of applicants, # admitted, # waitlisted. i know ... can. Alice McLorec asked, "When is the RSI letter of notification going ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years ... defer and refer to the OFY since they know these things best. It's one of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  first snow of the year? I'm from Florida and am looking forward to ... way out of your league. Professor attention silly the willy asked, How ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six ... reading, commenting, and otherwise being a part of this project over the ... blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• 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)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

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

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no time has passed. At the same time, all my energy from the beginning of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... you did on the first day of kindergarten was color. Heck, all we did on the first day of high school was get that permission slip signed saying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  , Professor of Music), and using technology to track the population of owls ... [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008