Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... internship is over and I’m not working around-the-clock to meet my own ... past (past) week flew most of their field interns out to the main Redmond

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... , but i think this summer is a testament to the fact that you can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... jiahua, a friend we met in promys, and we decided to schedule dinner the ... 's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a ... much intrigue and humorous dialogue (the book is quite entertaining

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... capital (as her aunt suggests she do), she is refusing to participate in ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... to the layer you want the object(s) to be on. Now the image is in layer ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... Ireland. The UK is the fully sovereign state that holds membership in the ... substitute teacher in the room during most days, which helped immensely with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit ... have said repeatedly over the years, “the factor that is both most

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... early admission rate is often much, much higher than the regular action admission rate). The reason is that we are committed to admitting no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... in my class were way over, so much so that the professor changed the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand, we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... incapable of doing the things we would much rather being doing, so most

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... the best way to learn something is to teach it, and for me the easiest ... proof is one of the easiest way to trump your cognitive biases: either it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I ... ? Not since I was in Tucson. This is lovely, and I appreciate the beauty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  real. The next day I ventured to Constitution Hill in one of the more ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... . In that first week alone I learned so much, mostly because this was my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  … 9.24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System is my last and most ... speaker, it’s one of the most knowledgeable speakers in the field! Seriously ... of the most important people in the world in the field of animal models

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018