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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my ... encouraged to use in official communications. The title is a little misleading ... significant that these guidelines have been released, given that they endorse a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn't have a college degree or a fancy job title, Matt Damon still had a story ... love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  if you have a well-founded belief that it is safe, meets specifications ... review of software and related documents on which you work. As a manager, do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story ... some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a ... hackers have been busy this semester! Here's a timeline of Fall 2015 Hacks

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... current (and future) MIT students, I suspect, I loved the BTTF movies as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I'm teaching again, this time a ... have been basically thinking about this course as a 'social history of

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

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... , including: We are a non-binding, non-restrictive Early Action school ... . Applying for financial aid will not negatively affect a student's admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  , after working on a serious blog post for a few hours, I realized what day ... Admitted Student Gathering with a nonexistent limited edition 1930 brass rat ... .   *static----we're back!* MIT Hacks are a staple of MIT culture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  Like Anna H. ‘14 blogged a while ago, as my time has gotten more ... from a distance. Here’s one of the stories my parents tell about the person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  to a stage not predetermined by government regulations. College is ... fascinating. Don’t miss it. Connect. Venture one conversation with a commonly ... what really mattered. Once I knew, the question no longer presented a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  the same office as my MIT sponsor, a Course 2 alumni. I had never been ... organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... here's the course description: "You choose the title, we improvise a 5

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

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a ... Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen ... : one from a math/science teacher, one from a humanities/social studies teacher, and one from a guidance counselor. Find the teachers who will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  Have you ever heard the joke: What’s green and has wheels? A logical ... ? Or maybe a green van? That’s green and has wheels, right?” A practical person, however, would recognize the tell-tale signs of a bad joke and wait

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  quickly (she was slow.) Having handwriting that you enjoy looking at is a ... class notebooks. I've also found that it's a lot more fun when there are ... my lecture notes, there is a mixture of 1) abbreviated content (normal

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the ... , Officer Collier.  You'll be missed. MIT has created a Sean A. Collier

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013