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• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  to do) was mechanical engineering. I liked to build things and create things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  a less appealing piece. But what does that have to do with life? If ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a ... ="Unless you'd like to burn yourself. Then use a triple crochet."]will make a

  • by Ella T. '25
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  (6-4 wasn’t around yet), and AI wasn’t much more than a buzzword to me ... be to invest all my energy into understanding the “artificial ... , and why does its wooden body make it sound so different from a saxophone

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty ... collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  a lot have no finals, just projects), and four finals turned out to be ... extension during a week in which I was almost too stressed out to move, but it ... MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  the Red and Orange Lines to Chinatown Station and then walked a couple ... expensive but totally awesome, I turned to eBay for a classic, all ... did my show at 7am and stayed to answer phones for Ben '09. He does the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to help with someone’s idea for a spread were unable to offer much ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine ... theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  convert them to a letter system for example. If you need to explain your ... need to submit the form? Yes. You are still required to complete the ... or progress reports. Do I still need to submit the form? Yes. There is

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... have taken 2 more SAT IIs. Do I need to resend my scores are will you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  academic to walk around the bomb site. As a writer, I am much more ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely known throughout the world as a surefire method to summon missing speakers

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... shop, eat, see a movie, or simply take a walk down the Freedom Trail to ... costs and a way to see a child prodigy in action. I’m also a fan of Kilted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that ... . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... decreased significantly. But I think that I’ve still been able to retain a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... him a blue mask, had him spend the night, and sent him back to live with

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... thinking about a lot, and i'm trying to involve frosh with its development ... sessions, each around four to five hours. it was a lot of dnd in a short time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... [international UROP] along with a Kelly-Douglas Traveling Fellows Grant and to my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  tend to be blockers to a team's progress, so they needed thorough ... puzzle to "Needs Factcheck". Factchecking is the process of making sure a ... mechanism is much harder. As a novice author, my first instinct was “I want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine ... no closer to achieving it, I realized that I would need some ... to convey to your audience in a 90-120 second segment of video, a clear

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022