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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  hard drive crashed. I'm a Mac user now. I need to find a way to acquire ... 't need tons of background and experience to take a class. As long as you ... 21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in Developing African Nations and the Role of MIT Students The resources needed to ... 'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend ... MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check ... hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once ... depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that ... pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... student-chosen area of focus within the HASS requirement that does not quite rise to the level of a [annotation note="Although, if a minor is offered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact ... that make MIT feel like home to anyone. We also have terrific ... rate that is much, much higher than many select private schools, and even

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  at Microsoft and got to work with Minecraft. I learned some cool things ... micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to apply to several places, including Microsoft. To be honest, I was pretty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  appreciation of the pressing need to educate the public and increase awareness ... within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... to provide a 40-minute seminar in their field of research to the group

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  mix of Spanglish. Translation only went awry once, when I tried to order ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately ... by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to ... . Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2: rotors rotating, spanners spanning, you should be able to check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  reminded of something that Stu Schmill once said to me, which was essentially ... me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  once I got to MIT, where women make up about half of the undergraduate ... until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  into the negative space to bring out paper from nowhere! How does this ... survived the death of Flash by migrating to HTML5, it hasn't lost any data ... work. Here's a link to that snowflake. If you view the snowflake on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... out to be my favorite class that term (the others were 8.04 8.044 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008