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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... . So according to my quick Google calculation, it's been 230 days since I ... you also obtain the skill of being able to critically navigate through

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of ... to move an entire dorm room's worth of stuff back and forth, back and ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... applied early to MIT. We of course wanted to know if the other had gotten ... decided to set up a calling system where if either of us got accepted, we

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  four years trying to think of clever ways to fit "function" and "tensor ... would later help you apply it to a testing situation. Worse, some of my classes simply went through the textbook, and not how to get anything of it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... perspective as a member of this committee, and decided to apply. I'm really ... sort as a high schooler, it's kind of crazy to be fiercely passionate

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  BOLD (2003). Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How To Stop It ... (and some broader intellectual context) to the rest of the class ... the course to be more of a seminar style than a traditional lecture

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  to kind of talk about Rush. Like what numerous people have mentioned ... happen each day, and each member of the fraternity try to go out and meet ... communities). Thus, in a lot of cases, you don't need to be "best fit" from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  From the website: 2.009, Product Design Processes, is intended to provide ... (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  respective organizations to levels I had only dreamed of while in High School ... , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot ... products. I realized that I was genuinely afraid of returning to the NRAO: if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... forced to recreate all the movies in the store, or "swede" them. "Sweding ... wearing photocopied masks of their faces so as not to invert their skin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... -dollar bills and half dollars, then set out to explore some of the town. Not a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was ... does also a lot of really cool research and you can check out his website ... One of my most favorite classes I've ever taken this semester is 8

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the ... course number listed on their transcripts. The point of the course is to ... ??? Hopefully I'll be able to add this class as part of my newfound purpose in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be ... before inserting a witty comment. He paid attention to what kinds of words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  conversion of turkey offal to see how the project was coming along. Since Andy ... , and the CTO of a company... and that the purpose of this lunch was to ... before I started to talk. My part of the lunch did go pretty well... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005