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• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... in the back of my mind until I was finally able to finish it over IAP ... turns out that a minority of buttloads is still most of a buttload. The

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... make the subject easy to understand and much more interesting. Also, they ... thus far. It also should be mentioned that it is a major plus to hear the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... was admitted to MIT with much less than perfect SAT scores. They were in ... the class an important component in being academically able to succeed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks. I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  related to IQ. It is, however, the most common learning disability, at MIT ... , pronunciation of those words is unique to the individual. We use these nuances in ... graduate school. The ability to read has long been linked in society’s mind

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  longer than 4 years to graduate, but mostly I hear the problem is due to ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... housing system is a bit unique in that, in most dorms, students (or at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather ... was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has ... to hike Mt. Everest, but when the high temperature for the day has a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  being said, there is a 'cream rising to the top' phenomenon in public ... college, so this period is the most competitive era in college admissions ... stellar pool. The most important thing now is not to take this personally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... . My brain is filled with too much snot right now to remember what we ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  vegetarians it's wrapped in a bacon weave and the recipe is from a guy named ... bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up   ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  -defunct Digital Equipment Corp. "The spanning tree algorithm is something that's in ... happened to be in the audience and offered her a job. She joined Digital in ... 's OK by her. Perlman's reward is in the solving of the puzzle.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• 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 ... in Sweden, I realized what I had to do.  I called the artist, Jane ... surprise I was sponsored to go to Sweden assist in the installation

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  yours -- "You have grit - the single most important factor to succeed in ... elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  pretty much ask anybody how to get to the Student Center (which is where ... one here for you. At the moment, it is actually snowing in the 02139 ... . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  Hamlet is Shakespeare's most difficult play, as well as the greatest thing ever written in the English language, nobody has ever even come close to ... Starbucks company policy to take pictures in the store. I joked that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  happened: Sometime in November, we got an email sent to the Art Scholars ... within a 0.25 mile radius haha. This is the meal I ate most: a turkey ... those lazy to watch, the tldr; is: I used a text-generating neural network

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to ... in La Sala and headed back to 3-107. Note to Caltech students: the note

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Engineering) a year and a half ago.  The most valuable lesson I've learned in ... . Yesterday, I woke up at 7:35am.  Starving, I got a sandwich to-go at the Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... how every single thing in the Gamble House is rounded (even the mf ... look (which I mostly managed to refine in later iterations).  

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019