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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... it reminds me a lot of my family. If I were to list off every ... diversity that I'd never considered before. It's really awesome to be able to

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet, so I end up burning parts so I can cook the meat all the way through ... one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  after 10.301. It's good to know that you can model parts of the process ... cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... could blog it for you. But I digress. Want to know the answers to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April ... freshman bonding experience. And it was nice to have real food for once. Chef ... I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  thesis proposal; ugh.  :)  Luckily it's somewhat okay for me to stay up ... draft to my advisers it's laundry time." Kim H: "I got up very early to ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  . It can be boring, but it gets really exciting every few hours because ... So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it ... found it more difficult to learn material, but I tend to learn more from ... for high school seniors applying to colleges, but it's limited to the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  . Also, it is mandatory to shout out "RESPECT IS JUST THE MINIMUM" along ... all summer... actually no, it's mainly for when you want to sway back ... where you can buy it. She never released it in the US

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  Interview It's a long one, but a good one. Ben: Many Ways to Define the Best ... that you'll want to go to." Sam: It's bigger than you, and you are not ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  jones - blogger alum?!?!?!? did you really have to remind me? Can I at ... Engineering -- so it is possible to switch fields. And it also is possible to ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... and then since i think it's healthy to share latest fixations, so i ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep, dark secret, but following Pharyngula - and using their title - here are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... . Wait, it's free?! I'm getting one ASAP." And thus, it was decided that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous ... incredible and words cannot describe it, but we have considered attempting to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... view MIT as a magical place and compare it to Hogwarts. They view the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the prior chord and then resolve it downward to create the most pleasant ... diatonic circle of fifths, including the tritone F-B leap, it can be repeated ... , it pales in nerdiness to some of the ones there. Anyway, when you wake

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to ... it back to the my office and found that the source of the traffic was ... man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  time and read it, you won't regret it: The Prodigy Puzzle I'm glad the Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  . So why then do we ask for this information? Simple - it helps us to ... , it is your choice to decide what to include in your application ... remember, only you can have the pieces to make the puzzle complete.

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005