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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these ... walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  students who genuinely want to help freshmen succeed at MIT. However, to be honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really take advantage of the fact that they lived near me... we were not a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  not to think about their identities." The same person can both benefit ... to this forum. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to attend another ... various identities that cannot be separated from the context of the person

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  to learn why bridges collapse and airplane roofs tear off, and being able to predict how and when things will fail based on the materials ... the study of markets as a whole. It's a pretty good time to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  come to appreciate the small things and not be overwhelmed by the ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in ... .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  use for the photography class I'll get to take next term because I'm not a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first ... be subjected to the new modular lab requirement. These were the three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  the team's actualized potential to be good o = the offense d = the ... Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  willing to front the entrance fee so just as long as we know some financial ... warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... article. This was the line that struck me: Hasbro will be showing off the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  -income students, and students who will be the first generation in their family to go ... not, nor is it clear if or when it will be. However, the [annotation ... , and not everyone around the world has been able to be vaccinated yet, or

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  say goodbye to my graduating friends, some of whom i know will not be ... the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT ... living with your friends, being able to just walk down the hall, knock on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  bio that are immutable; my birthplace will never not be Jamaica, and my ... instead of wielding it, and I will attempt to write the next paragraph ... -as-all-get-out love for brains means that people never fail to remember my major. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  feasible for the class you’re taking. Note that you are not required to ... resources are available. Some will be offered by the class, and others will be ... the grade will not show up anywhere outside MIT’s internal system. In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  need to be around people all the time. Unfortunately, though, that’s not ... structure. There’s nothing as cut-and-dry as being in the group chat or not ... chats should be constructed with the same attention you’d give to crafting

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  ’re apparently low-stress enough to be called “quizzes,” even though the one on ... 25% of the final grade! (The other 25% being psets.) This test will ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  scores in the Part II, but note that we ask for "Date taken (or to be taken ... scores sent to us by the testing agencies. Please be sure to have the ... matching the scores to the application. All that being said, it's a good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... French soldier audience was not amused the first time he tried to put it on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  that a 2400 on the SAT is not necessary, you will probably try to find ... want to keep any of you waiting longer than others (also the reason why ... yourself to people in your school or town. You don’t have to be "the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some ... at you." (Selam) Also: there will be shuttles running from Logan to ... people, so it won’t be awkward. Pinky promise. Be open to the weird and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my ... , inertia, pride or fear should never be the reason why you close your mind to ... pursued their dreams and failed? Wouldn’t it be selfish of me to give up the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012