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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  next to it, but actually turned out to be all the flipping way across ... Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse ... all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... generous number of problems to be solved and a carefully selected list of ... -fi, thriller, satire aficionado but I'm open to any suggestions. Now to the book

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing this with Sara '11, MA born and raised, and quickly began to realize that ... my classmates. Granted, by now we've all listened to Dropkick Murphys

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring ... cuts off the circulation to your arm. By the end of the day, we all had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  weBabble would be on their way to the championship. Toxic Algae had ... tirelessly to craft the most agile bots, by covering their wheels with ... were off again, and Toxic Algae's seemed to be ready to put up another

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’t be so quick to write things off if you think you might be interested ... , inevitably you’re going to be involved with recruiting people for some ... . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  apply. That being said, I have to bear the bad news that we're primarily ... pretty high. The exception will be for video. We're looking to add video ... Application To be considered for a blogger position, you should email me

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... imagination. There are two parts to this: (1) being technically excellent and (2 ... towards one solution too early on in the process.  Be open to other people

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• 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 ... trip!" - said by my professor after he had to exit his building due to a ... . "Oh my god something's on fire!!! Aaaand let's do E&M" - To be fair

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

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming ... antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two ... happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  generated by ChatGPT (for example) tends to be fairly generic and plain ... prompted students to think about human writing in new ways. There are ... will be presenting writing as their own that they did not produce. To be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , be managing my time better? am i not doing enough? my day slips by ... going to be okay regardless, so worrying about these things—especially as ... ’d force myself to be cognizant of every “wasted” second; eventually, i gave

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  at MIT. Hopefully. Too good to be true? That's what I thought. There ... for it being late. Also, I thought it was hilarious that I had to write ...  about what it is like to not be well at the end of a semester, and it is not fun

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the way people live their lives in the future. It’s going to be a long ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here ... rather how to solve "problems caused by the language". Sorry, that was too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  friend’s at (and soon to be at) MIT who I already miss. Since this ... Boston from Virgina Beach… by way of Atlanta. While displacment is a ... forbidden hint) to be taking pictures. For example, during the GBIS A

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  . Cummings and, after explaining that I was going to be be in Cambridge during the summer, asked if she would be willing to let me visit her lab. To ... particular, I really enjoyed being able to talk to the undergraduate students

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have turned out if I’d gone to Harvard. (I think I’m glad I didn’t, I think I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  that being an introvert is necessarily bad (check out Quiet by Susan Cain ... friends can't be that hard. All you have to do is say hi, shake hands, and ... decided I'd have to trick it into social interaction by giving it chances to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  way better than being decided. Come to your friends’ student group ... change. It can be scary or liberating. Either way, try to call them at ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  crowd lining up all the way out to the building 56 Athena cluster ... 3: (HAYDEN gets beaten to a pulp by SAMUEL L. JACKSON) MALE AND ... transporting someone from point A to B very quickly. But I'm going to do it with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008