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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  benefitting from work others have done. Kahlenberg argues that this is fundamentally unfair. Selective college admissions is a zero sum game: every ... advantages accrued by prior generations. Kahlenberg is exactly right, except

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  -price college night, and we took their website's claim of "All you have to do is ... The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all ... food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  we are blogging about them now. This is the second semester when we ... , physically based simulation, ray tracing, and real-time rendering. There is a ... animatable characters out of it! Here is one of them. [embed

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  So my schedule at work is pretty sweet. I work slightly long days all ... , crossed it, and headed to the Hatch Shell. This is when I began my ... don't skate on dirt, it trashes bearings, so I de-skated, threw them

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  Science and Technology Initiatives) is the umbrella organization for a lot ... country, he/she might say, "Hey, that MIT-Japan thing is pretty cool, I want ... (although I think Isreal is the most recent). Well, I've been wanting to go

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  where I would be staying I slept for 11 hours (Jetlag is no joke). I woke ... about my lab is the fairly even spread of different types of South ... on Westcliff Dr. to work on DeKorte St., the lab had a good mix of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  Mikey's (the MIT speaker, and recent graduate) information but, as this is ... guys! _____ The representative for Brown is starting off the evening ... discuss a broad, general aspect of admissions that is relevant to each

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  It's August.  Campus is already buzzing to life.  Those friends who ... 'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  conclude that nearly everyone who entered the contest is fated to become an ... that he is, in fact, at MIT. Tim the Beaver beams at the camera ... contests that feature cheap foods with comedic potential is more or less a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  writing is really, really hard to stick with. It's incredibly difficult to ... drive is littered with scraps of nonsense that will probably never blossom ... course instructor is supposed to be really, really good. Yay for HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  is only 29 years old, he has 24 patents-pending and has been touted as ... , his mantra that big ideas require big risks is evidenced by his various ... the Boston skyline, it seems that life is good for Berry and he admits

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Every year there is a contest sponsored by East Campus called the Bad ... (I am not that lame) because this is about the start-up company that ... , website, video and marketins selling point. The quote, "more than ever. hour

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you ... to be happy here. Every single student here is challenged -- they have ... ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  students who have asked me about whether this post is still totally accurate. The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the ... 're someone trying primarily to understand what Minerva is (and ought to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the ... share a common Website to compare a variety of materials and exchange

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered ... motivation and examples and eliminating content you don’t think is useful ... code and understand everything that is going on make your first piazza

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  the room’s furniture arrangement and decorative ambiance. The room is ... room at absolutely no cost. According to the MIT List center’s website, this is a tradition that has been going on since 1969! So how does it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  segment). What's harder to express or explain is the impact that watching ... to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out there that is worth searching for, even if you can never quite apprehend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment." Today, that responsibility is embodied in the ... website! In particular, the Energy Initiative has been a key player in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep ... away my website!) Here at MIT, the Infinite Corridor has been ringing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008