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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... end of last semester, it's a nice change of pace. 6.006 Introduction To ... resources and help to be found. On top of that, the lecturer, Professor Terman

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the ... to be doing a 2.003 pset, and it really isn't a lot of fun. Adelaide

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…

  

  I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer ... ) Herrell's D) Christina's Boston and Cambridge are home to many other fine ... distance of the 'Tute. Get the Scoop here. Joke answer: Pi a'la mode.

  • by Bryan
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  among men in the 19th century. Mitra usually does not allow me to take pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options ... apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my ... graduating today as well before heading to different corners of the planet to help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... to eat multiple meals every day. Here are some snaps of this week ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group ... to learn something new at every seminar. The list of the seminars that ... arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... available today would not be up to the task of doing this entire project ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

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

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said ... -American appointed to the cabinet post of U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former ... life-altering event," according to a profile of Craighead compiled by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do ... President of Yale and an influential economist. While I don't have time to go ... out, all of the IvyPlus schools had cut at all of those layers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  week of symposia that is free and open to the public and organized by ... in the Sloan School of Management who is using an algorithm to help ... of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  set of answers about MIT, I want you to stop reading and think about ... element of all of us doing it to ourselves -- we're here because we secretly ... encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  and illogical to keep a few freshmen out of the rest of the system. In ... words to REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It", for serious ... office, to give our future freshmen the choice to move out of their living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  to know, this is a really great blog post), I wanted to give a recap of ... rock wall. There are three levels of speed that correspond to the ... respirator muffled your voice to the point of incomprehensibility? Well, that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than ... future students of the Institute. If there is anything you would like to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to ... incredible things I've had a chance to do and be a part of - mea culpa, mea

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... called No Flip Flops which was full of pointers on how to survive a winter ... the example of what not to do ie I was wearing board shorts, flip flops

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized ... goal now is to graduate with a month's worth of MIT t-shirts, and I think ... fold clothes. I promise that the repeated act of folding one sleeve

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to ... or two of snow still covered the ground. Our bus pulled up directly to ... . Five to ten minutes later, the boys came out of the bathroom. Where's the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008