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• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone to a camp like RSI for admission purposes - other than for its own sake ... MIT admissions process look at this as a factor? Why? It seems to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  Hallo everybody. As it turns out, video editing is a very time ... effective nonetheless. I want to see this movie now. *Nombre is actually ... . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  field is simply to get experience in it; through UROPs, clubs, project ... much of MIT is about openness, whether it's the open source movement or ... and friends to gather to brainstorm startup ideas. This is quite

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  eats it. This is going to be a rough 40 days. So the reason I only wanted to take 2 classes this term is because I expected applying to ... would think it's easy, but it's really not. So this semester is the FIRST

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff And Not Have It Suck" as it is related to microbes. We spend a semester ... blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  historian, but she is not jealous of her art. In fact, she seeks to instill in ... allows us to see history as it happened, as if she was the proverbial fly ... , and she is an absolutely fascinating speaker. She has done decades of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the ... my pictures. One of them is a dry-sub printer; it sublimates red and

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  job is. The students were beyond grateful for the chance to connect with ... barriers to higher education. After all, it’s easy to feel discouraged when ... reminds me why this work is so important. It’s about making dreams feel

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  . To be considered for a blogger position, you must email it to me (chris ... . Send us some of your writing. It could be a link to (or select entries ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I ... So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... are some groups to check out: Rainbow Lounge The Rainbow Lounge is a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a ... ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... world the skillset and mindset needed to start their own companies. It was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  forward in dignity. It is in this spirit that we resign to the fact that ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... migrated from Bonfire to Pecker, where it remained for the rest of its days

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... (although it's actually possible to do MISTI multiple times!). You see, there is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  homework? It’ll keep you from waking up early to work out and make you fall ... hope you are fortunate enough to avoid. But I can’t change it now. When I ... . The saddest part is the reason why I got a D. It wasn’t because I couldn

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  Patriots lost to the Giants. It was pretty painful. But the midst of it all ... model, is a simplification: it doesn't truly describe the ability of, say ... interception because he sees the football and reflexively thinks it is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  it over IAP when a single became available) and was kind enough to let ... to turn my vision into reality. This is where ... other day on my way to Brigg's Field. It was lookin' pretty good so I took

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  -of-consciousness prose and doing chemical kinetics homework that it will have to wait until ... dead. Another one of our many traditions is to cram the entire band ... " I have ever heard--I wish you were there to hear it. But maybe you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many ... ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my ... how to fix it. Anyway, that tire swing inspired me to get back to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... , since it is still October, and the snow was pretty wet. What is weird is ... specifically to notify students of events that have free food. :)" This is most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005