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• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  , sending the father home to be with his family, while giving him my direct ... this that make being out on the road so much fun. Meanwhile, I've been ... awesome juggling event, a Gospel concert, etc. It will be good to be back on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way ... matter how many times you tell yourself that it will all be okay, and no matter how many times you believe it when you tell yourself it will all be

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  performing “Icarus” by Bastille (the song some lounge critics proclaimed to be ... will say in our defense that the hour and a half of outright mistruths ... recognized sadly that my week was shaping to be extremely busy with the final

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  probably have a very easy job. The kind robots will be doing soon.” I hope ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  Puccini in 1924. Among the composers represented will be: Monteverdi, Rameau ... Strauss and Puccini. Emphasis will be placed on understanding opera as a dramatic art form expressed through music. Consideration will be given to

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  from the womb of Google search statistics. What follows may be read as a sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the ... lightweight, perfectly reflective material, how big would the sail need to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  school, and the next day you will be inclined to go to another. If you ... way of weighing which one would be better for me. On one hand, I had the ... would be working on electrical engineering related projects, etc.) On the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  for being more productive, the blind will see*, and Ol' Yeller won ... me, has been finding the time to try and pset all that needs to be ... that can be part of the challenge that's so exciting. I mean, would you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  the Harvard course number into the form. MIT will magically convert it ... out to be totally true the buildings have names, not numbers, and the ... four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  are extra video clips that we filmed, and there will be timestamps ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be ... :45) while the briquettes were heating up and being thrown into the oven. We

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  of a rough transition, but the mix of books we will be reading is ... later in the term. There are lots of small details which never seem to be ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  circumstances, fewer than four high school English courses will be fine. I ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the way down the linked page). I wanted to identify the cosplay roles played

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  question: we never relax! :-) Ivy Plus Next week will be a nice change of pace, however: we'll all be at the Ivy Plus Conference. This is similar ... , Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, and Yale. It will be my first Ivy

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  never will be. I wish you the best on your own journeys, and until next ... ’t working for me. Those kinds of introspections can’t be forced. They will ... . Those reflections will happen eventually, I am sure; I am not the kind of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  seminar will be required to actively participate in class discussion and to ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course ... favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  the word has two distinct meanings: to be made callous and indifferent ... slipping it on reminds me to be my best person: the most intelligent ... , please, take a moment, just a moment, to think about how you will make the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  and a potential spot on the Boston Poetry Slam Team that will compete at ... content with the most important aspect being that they stay consistent. The ... night the Cantab Lounge hosts an Open Mic followed by a Featured Poet and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  year, cambridge will be the longest i've lived in any one place. and ... i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... school could be, these were the types of things i could only dream of doing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  few students will research the readings and present their interpretation ... the course to be more of a seminar style than a traditional lecture ... new special topics course called CMS.S62: The Internet as Social

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  not the audience will continue to be there, and whether that audience will just be the people who already know and love MIT, or whether we can ... , or what they would be. Certainly it wasn't clear that the blogs would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014