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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  person today has potentially more impact on society than the President of ... . Lou proposes a new system that takes advantage of modern technology, a ... . We need to become conscious of our environment and potential impact on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... walking around -- probably some of the most brilliant people on the face of ... classes on my fall schedule right now, a HASS (21M.223, Folk Music of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  academia aesthetic of a train on a grey-skies-day. Five of us (myself, Kayode ... go on. The five of us hopped on the shuttle to wait for the others to ... still on. We are down to the final last three women, if that is of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  better recently! I've told the story once before on the blogs of how I went ... more parts of campus and made more friends as time went on.   ... 'm a 6.031 LA now, and someone put on Ecstasy of Gold during a grading

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... through the weekdays makes the weekends of lounging around on Friday and ... refreshing in these last few weeks. In my last post, I uploaded a picture of my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... this is helpful and answers lots of questions... Music. If you play music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles ... you had to take a broomstick falling out of the sky and catch it on your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... , dripped on, etc. I did my very best to remove the evidence of all of these ... settled on a geometric representation of a tree. Drawing real objects

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  take advantage of the new feature they implemented after Randall Munroe ... reception area while one of the other doctors was working on patients. It was ... 't show through on paper. Most of all, don't be nervous. My MIT interview

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  undergrad members of management to come talk on camera so that I would have ... 2. produced/announced by a rotating set of DJs and 3. are on air every ... . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  you stay on track. I'm not saying schedule every minute of every day. I ... Hello, I'm a PC. Hello, I'm a Mac. If you haven't seen one of these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... address?), announcements from every group on campus promoting their events

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... sculpture composites of their members. We gorged ourselves on delicious pasta ... and physics curriculum of various grade levels. Each class brought new

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... causes of war, with a focus on practical measures to prevent and control ... a friend of mine, along with four other MIT students, on the radio

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  story. In 1914, Lester Gardner of the MIT Club of New York proposed a ... animals. We turned to [William Temple] Hornaday���s book on the animals of ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  way through walls of drunks in a Glasgow railway station on Saturday ... more out of the next few years than a million drunken photos on Facebook ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008