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• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 ... I discovered shortly after completing this blog entry that, much like ... opportunity and artistic statement. Think of it like that classic episode of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I ... about what it’s like to study economics as an undergrad at MIT, and why I personally find it to be enjoyable and rewarding. You could ask a different

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with ... important to you and why. They will also talk about what you added to the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  has a bunch of people that will buy a new system on launch day and thus ... what you'll find) and, to my amazement, I saw a big ol' question mark ... Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  reform debate prior to this summer (and I'm still learning). Growing up ... commonplace, and I remember that my mom would whisk me off to the doctor for ... extremely trivial amount to pay for a doctor's visit and getting two week

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  community to self-promote or to create idols, anoint heroes. This really ... likely to infuriate or simply leave a scientist nonplussed. And nothing, of ... scientist that does not include, at some level, some comparison to Einstein

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  to students. You buy one (1) card for $10, and you get to go to most ... thing, expecting the tabs to be gone afterwards. Yet, they persist, and ... back to. Mostly, I just scroll back up to them and read them whenever I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  kind of cheesy and try-hard if I attempt to explain how much Ring ... committee was to get changed and get hyped.  At 6:30pm, doors opened. I was ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  cicada or something and it made me think about my choice to come to MIT ... , but they also serve to inflate my vast and uncontrollable ego. But ... once with some people from our floor. You can see the result here. And my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  lists of todos, instructions to myself, things to check up on, and so ... : There! Now you've got some cool MIT-ish stuff to see, and I can clear a ... childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  people just… juggling! They’ve got colorful props, much whimsy, and ... to them before, but sometimes I’ll see someone else talking, and they ... walking to class one day, and standing along the side of the hallway was

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , as much as I would often hate to admit it. And I wanted to go to MIT ... few other FIRST students to create the DIY Segway. I didn't build much ... CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  creating a work of art. And to create a brilliant work of art, you not only ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He ... the show, an audience member came to me and told me that he even felt a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide ... intelligent” scientists to provide solutions to the oil leak, and Alexander ... 's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  that much. By sophomore year of college, I had to declare my major. I ... most familiar with or have a Bachelors in, does not necessarily have to ... electromagnetism — “how to use electricity to control, count, and process” Computer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  Since it's summer tour season and my path to work keeps getting ... and things to discover, so kindly refrain from clogging up our path ... students in the winter -- once you get to the Infinite in the winter, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  taken a class and gotten so much out of it before. I did start going to my ... decided to take the course that honestly was overbearing at times, and I ... was to teach you how to write proofs and not necessarily focus on the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  pretty much the same: after all, flowers were finally starting to bloom en ... one of them, and my friend Brianna and I got to co-run it. Our original ... people eat them), but anyone who managed to rise to the occasion and name a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025