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• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  start to figure themselves out. Lose the culture, heart, soul of our site in the service of narrow goals. Be too scared to change for the better ... should stop doing? What conversations do we want to be a part of, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... right now, so I'll leave that for later. For now, I want to make a list of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  force myself to learn, I find I'm capable of doing things I never thought ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... to MIT and felt a quick jolt of sadness from leaving home after the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  throughout the class where I forced myself up three flights of stairs to ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to ... that useful. Now, I love to find ways to use it. I think of it as an

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  to include people from all parts of the Institute, whatever their ... feature of the new LCE website that was just released (which is why mine ... I logged in and made a profile with the intention of reaching out to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... places, so take what they have to say with many grains of salt. I apologize

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, and who show up to conventions ... novels. When I was younger, I put some of these to music. It was just a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... enough to help with that first 35 mm film screening of Howl’s Moving Castle ... . We use pairs of cue dots to coordinate them synchronously; the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... method which will minimize the formation of these Maillard reaction ... possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  Works, Photoshop, and Adobe Acrobat, I think I've come up with a method of mapping ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  intelligence" use a variety of methods to investigate different mechanisms of ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order ... and deformed nutshell, is MIT's method of making sure that students take ... commenters to descend like locusts upon a ripe orchard of false information

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  is one supposed to describe the experience of plunging headfirst into ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill ... something new? While I can’t yet say whether or not this shotgun method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  to the method of cutting the potatoes--not because Americans are stupid ... price of 50 € RT, with an included meal and up to three (3) beverages of ... digital camera to take some food-pornographic pictures of. And, let me tell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  middle of nowhere New Hampshire. You're kind of forced to be fully engaged ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... north of MIT, and here's why: 1. I Kind Of Had To The morning of retreat

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  . With that large of a work force, it’s hard to keep track of every single ... time at MIT or if I want to jump into a career straight out of college ... what I could understand, it’s up to members of these companies to commit

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  close to a supermarket and restaurants, most of my IAP was actually spent ... of using words to describe my project, here is a video I made! But for ... of so much repeated exposure to the topic through these classes), when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  , sometimes you just have to take it. But what, you ask, of the website, and ... brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012