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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... actually the first official review of the book, and the first professional ... . As a result, the novel broke even on the first day of sale, and since

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you ... even the most simple of observations about our admissions process

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be ... to work on them. And then I was out the whole weekend, from Friday ... pulse because it thinks you’re still alive. That’s the kind of sentence I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  celebrate the end of the first week of school, I went to Boston Calling on ... the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I actually moved here. Throughout all of high school, the idea of college as a

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  for the first two and a half years of undergrad. Then a series of random ... the most successful instances of blog-based manifesting I've ever seen ... plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position ... of analyzing Brayton cycles and figuring out the delta s of compressor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  looks! MyMIT Tracking for EA: We are still processing thousands of ... MyMIT tracking.  Once we're up-to-date, we'll let you know ... know some schools and homes are still out of power, and we don't want

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  fairly recent tradition; the first redesign of it came about in 2008. But ... , with small reminders of things that happened during the first two years ... whole bezel), two are by the end of its tail, and another two are toward

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  with my roommate. I suppose that happened in the first half of 2014, but ... soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of ... Robert Galbraith’s novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling. Robert is of course J

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  whole four hours) is just a Bad Idea. The weekend also consisted of a rat ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... stories tall - I'm never really sure because, as you can see, the first

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  man who discovered the first oncogene say, “The street value of NADH is ... changed here. I have Professor Tegmark who, on the first day, said hello and ... fill them up with Gauss this and Gauss that by the end of the class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  ? And finally, the real masterpiece of this whole endeavor: a playlist ... to be pretty satisfying. Bloggers Wrapped, Wrapped First, the basics ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] i'm glad that i am the queen of spotify diversity, i guess

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  -figure-advanced, award-winning book of short stories, Drown—by most accounts the first ... pages), out on Sept. 6, the saga of an immigrant family, but that wouldn ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... this statement can be true when i rarely blog in the first place... oops

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  committment, and our principal just kind of got rid of the whole thing. So our ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  of how the whole thing works. You look through the information ... using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their first-choice living group. The room assignment chairs in each living group

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  sets over the mountains. They're doing this whole thing in support of ... "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash across пњљпњљ of the earth's surface in cars that most people consider

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006