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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... soon the path to solution worked, getting the right answer was definitely ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to ... , and wants to learn to climb things. She sometimes eats three breakfasts ... to write fanfiction about me and m_quinn, but we hired him anyway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

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

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end ... turn it into a for-credit UROP as well. RATP has asked us to consider new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  schoolers design and build machines — from dragsters to an automatic pancake ... , Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend ... team has just two days to complete the project. Challenges range from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  I hope over the next course of the year, we can get to know each other ... things to see and do as Walt Disney World. So far in my little trip down Infinity Lane, I decided to major in mechanical engineering, minor in

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  get my picture taken to be even more authentic. My mother is not so ... work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  often get some interesting notices over the list, and thought I'd share this one with you: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:25:08 -0500 To: suma ... ) ******************************   REGISTER NOW! TO REGISTER, please send an email to taskforce

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get ... to help... Eventually, I get back to work. I have to fill out a weekly ... walk to Star Market to get a pint of ice cream and end up with two pints

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... assumption that if I didn’t get into MIT then I’d worry about the other ones ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  know that if you get a skeleton to kill a creeper, it drops a music disc ... My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf, they will get your letter ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  'm going to do? I'm going to find out your username, and get my workstation ... I was going to name this post "Things I enjoyed reading this year ... Things I enjoyed reading this year, but I edited the title to make it more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020