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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  . (Recording these was already an interesting experience. In order to make the ... audience of one: the microphone! Fortunately no one ever walked in on me ... any lecture to prepare for quizzes; and the printed version provides a

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  so easy to use. They're actually magic in how they work. You put the ... measured like four cups of rice, filled it water up to the line that said "4" inside the pot, put in the chicken, and set it to cook. After a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  . This was our second LLAB of the semester.   3) Do you have to do ... , internships, etc. On the other hand, there are many opportunities to do some ... fellow cadets - because our detachment is on the smaller side, you get to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  . After the park, we went to Disney Springs, an outdoor mall on Disney ... just as we were next to go on the ride, the ride literally shut down ... went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  towards that. On the second day of 2022, I found myself pulling out my old ... friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  question: 'I am international applying to MIT for the second time now. I ... good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... mit so i little to worry about now just workin on keepin the grades high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high ... making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for the very last one of those posts has crept up on me. Let's calculate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to ... "piston" (on the left half of the machine) to displace air to the cooler side of the engine. The air on the cool side loses heat to the outside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  senior year - I took the 6.189 Intro to Python course on MIT Open ... , I’m also now embarking on the project of redesigning our website to ... ) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School ... supposedly impressive. Probably half the problems were just to take logs (the ... about (yet), caught an elevator* to the 6th floor of the Kavli Institute

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  MBTA silver line, to the red line, and all the way home... Unfortunately ... weeks if they left Canada to drive me to Boston. Fact 3: the school ... 't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  and tried miserably to do it all, Getting new emails by the hundreds, on ... reminder to stop and smell the flowers, I’m living on cloud nine. ... to the great and wonderful institutions that are Princeton and Yale

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  or three more times on Max, and I will continue to have this as the ... (more details to come) and read it on and off throughout the spring. It is ... , and I got to see the Boston Marathon. Des Moines, Iowa - Hell on earth

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone ... the other with a hammer until something bends. I remember going on a ... .096: blacksmithing, and How to Make Almost Anything. I got into all but the last one. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... , I led the freshman over to a whiteboard, and stood on a couch while he ... sprinkles and placing them carefully on the layer of icing, while talking to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  pause on the world to let the emotions and struggles of a character ... , Climbed to the highest place, On every fire escape, Restless to climb. I got ... on the fence about whether to go, let me just say this: my little

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  first vector, somewhere, making a line segment. Then draw the second ... vector on every vertex except the lower-left one. (If I drew it starting ... don’t want.) Then connect these endpoints to form a hexagon. Repeat the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ... dancing on roof decks of frat houses. Last summer I watched the fireworks

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013