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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  variability depending upon who is responding So instead of giving a number, I ... pie is a zero.” The protests were immediate. I think there was a ... , “Great story David.  What is the point of all this?”  Perhaps there is no

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  . Here's all the stuff I made! The zeroth week of beginner class is partly ... that is literally thousands of degrees hot. You also learn how to "gather ... molten glass is and collecting some on the end of your pipe. Finally, we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in ... and too kind to be bound by such fleshly desires, but eventually it is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  You should use your current, legal first and last name when filling out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’t go to rowing practices. This means my UROP is my main organized ... ’m claiming this spring as a “research semester.” This is mostly an aspirational ... .03: Intermediate Microeconomics This is the last [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  is another lame play. Fefu and Her Friends (18k words). MIT Music and ... read the script as well as watch. The script itself is hilarious at times ... acted, which is a shame, really, since MTA's production breathed an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... what MIT means to me.  The short version is that it is the place in my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton-Conner. The other apartment is only ~20 steps away and always accessible, so I ... , and to go on long bike rides around Cambridge/Boston is absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I ... started last year with 50 girls, 2 teachers, and 1 city. This year it is 600 ... Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  have also taken very few of those. My perspective is that of someone who ... note is that if you don’t think high-school math is particularly exciting ... , and homework is often weighted equally with exams. As a whole, homework

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  because when it does, it breaks over us, and our office is deluged with ... after the Regular Action deadline) is what applicants should do now that they've hit the submit button. The simple answer is to fill out the FUN

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard ... it was Connie and Shanasia, and if anyone is ever wondering what the illuminati thing is about for the class of 2019, it all started with Shanasia

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  "introductory digital systems laboratory" aka "digital death" is super cool! we ... ):   this class is eating my life. i hate it. i love it. it sucks. it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get this show on the road.* A Couple of Doors Down (cooking is fun, too ... , and frozen dinners, cooking is the kind of skill you’ll be glad you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  , now I work here running this thing, and my office is off main campus so ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... 't really explain the latter, here's the deal about the former: SNOT. IS

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... . So Biology is not just "anatomy and physiology", but also: biochemistry ... , population biology, structural biology, and much more! My branch is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

      Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also ... a million times, because four classes at MIT is a full and very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014