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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  this isn't a bad way to find a starting point: ask me anything in the comments. Go ahead. Don't be shy. This is a judgment-free zone. To ... much time to the projects as I wanted because I was busy with other

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  much meat :( :( Even the mashed potatoes had bacon in them :( But ... to see the challenge in action!  Also, I got to hand out inspirational ... from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in ... .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Toscanini's, where the ice cream is tasty and the electrical outlets are in ... to myself. There's endless work to do here, but the best work is done ... this much. This week, to my academic detriment, I'm proof that energy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most ... all tied for the most correct, with 6. The mode was, I believe, 5, with most people clustered in the 3-5 correct range. If the group winners

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  bask in exhausted we-did-it glory the night of, when a thing is not ... much else happening. And the thing is, I don’t think that will change. Except that the semester alone isn’t really enough to educate you in meche

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning ... differences. She has one of the most elegant writing styles and her stories are ... and I have a class in the Longwood Medical Area (a 15-minute drive from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... goal is to put your satellite in three different columns of air and try ... first few times kid: creepers are the easiest monsters to kill in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer ... ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just ... relation, or at least only very marginal, to 10.302. Here is the finished

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me. Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  . The goal is to try to show a bit of everything. To be fair, 12 students ... .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I am a bad example but only for about twelve seconds.

  

  lit out there, this is probably one of the more well-written books you could give to a teenage girl." (I do not think the series is well ... thing to my mom for even longer, as she is one of maybe three people in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is ... used as testing facilities: Heading back to the first floor, there is ... enter the first of two exercise floors. There are cubbies on the right to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  the bar is set and simply limping over it to gain admission. The biggest ... interested in MIT, odds are that applies to you, too. So the best thing you ... If you had a rabid enough interest in MIT and resided in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  frames. The only other downside to my room is that I couldn’t squeeze in a ... carpet to match with my roommate, which in hindsight was not the best ... "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... to admit, the resemblance is uncanny. Huge thanks to Phil '07 for ... Texas, by the border), designed this banner. She is considering studying

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... …I think it’s important to see the highs and lows and in betweens here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology