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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I ... little cheesy). This is what the syllabus looked like:   Summer 2015

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now ... important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and you don ... ! What is it? The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is an online form

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not ... . This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  this picture is quite accurate: (NASA/Wallops Flight Facility ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... is intense this semester (most course 2 peeps I've told give me a crazy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  maximum comfort is checking in as soon as humanly possible. This is actually ... Row SSS- Super Special Seat (To be explained later, there is only 1 on ... the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  is one that I've learned more and more throughout my time here at MIT ... solutions to all your design criteria, and then your proposed solution is just ... 's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  biology. I agree; using that metric, biology is useless. (Obviously, that's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... feeling whenever you push or publish something, is terribly valueless to you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul ... of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the ... Arthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, the Shaw Prize, the Einstein Medal, and is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... for Freshman," which is notable because of two things: The title is ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars ... New York City, is walking. I daresay most people walk. For example ... racks around campus near classes and dorms. There is even an auction near

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... (which, thanks to a guy named Ohm, means you'll die). Your best bet is to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250. Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  have been screened carefully by yours truly. :-) My first interviewee is ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no ... , experts in their field. One area that seems to be taking off right now is

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... it in Germany, but döner is seriously the most delicious thing on earth. It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... critical job for parents is to make sure that young people don't interpret ... distressing if an application is denied. No matter how confident you are of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Tyra Banks is 5'10" tall and weighs 161 lbs. I am 5'9 3 ... as good as Lulu's, but American Idol is on and Nicole Tranquillo ... distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  everybody else is doing at the end. Talking about people behind their backs ... . note: Yes, he is a boy. And he is a boy who gets to hang out with ... (Building 37) Details: I'm working with a group that is involved in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  MIT is harder than your high school. In many cases, MIT is harder ... them will be #1 anymore. This is not Lake Wobegon -- not everybody gets ... classroom The most garden-variety way to ask for help is to find another

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006