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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... , the project. In years past it's been customary for students in 2.670 to ... competition to see whose engine ran the fastest. This year there is a new

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... their ranks, since he knew every word to every song) -- it's always a ... - it has to do with Creationism!" Eventually, it was time to go. We said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... opportunities to travel globally, but while it's not summer or IAP, local exploration is a fine substitution. It's just like non-carcinogenic sugar

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  though the KerMIT is overall a benevolent figure, its mischievous nature sometimes makes it a tricky character to deal with. There is now a small group ... its contributions to the fields of science and technology. But do you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating groundbreaking games, interactive online courses, and new applications to real ... scholars, creators, and technologists to teach, conduct research, and develop
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  , what is humanities, especially history, at MIT to me? It’s tremendously ... - AMS is like 21H (a regular history major) with a special twist. --- It ... . 21H.406 quickly became my favorite class that term, and I found it to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  things were handled last summer. However, it is important to recognize that ... --photographs dating back to 1916, Sport Death memorabilia, old yearbooks. It would ... yet here it is, detached from its home of decades. x In

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it ... born and grew up on the east coast, the west coast is so far away that it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and ... . I’d sworn to stick to math. Cannot imagine why. It took a while to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  -or-less agreeing to let you do whatever it is you want, there's a style for every ... meetings and talking about what it is I wanted to do. I wanted the controls ... their first meetings with their advisors, it's to listen and engage them

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  -up to the hack entry and answer some questions about it if I can. (Plus I ... editing photos, my brain fried and I forgot to give full credit where it was ... the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... -experience event at Random is their fall rush, designed to introduce freshmen to ... big peanutbuttery gob with the Hershey's kisses on it is labeled 'Stata

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  is this: It's all coming down to something, but what? Last night there ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... students. It's a battle, a hunt to find the mystery! ----- Aditi, here are

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  it means different things to different people. This is false. The true nature of IHTFP is that it holds a dual meaning for all of us. Sometimes it ... insane, so it's back to productivitiy! Time to churn out the dozens of blog

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can a family member contact MIT Admissions on my behalf, or ask questions about the content or status of my application?

  No, it is MIT policy to communicate directly with applicants about their applications, rather than with their family members. If you have a question, please email us from the email address that you used to register
• Blog / Hacks

  Removing a hack This is too cool

  

  Ok, this is cool. Schmiedl was invited up to film the hack removal ... of any video anything like this existing anywhere, it's a real treat. Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this!

  • by Snively '11
  • May 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow ... Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug someone. 3:57 AM In Bed. Will wake up at 8 am and read it over one more

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Somewhat Random A little news bite.

  

  unrelated to MIT...well yea, but since finals are over and my brain is still mush, I'm allowed. It's really only during the winter and summer breaks that I have the opportunity to read for enjoyment. Harry Potter has had

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  .” My goal for the upcoming academic year is to expand into as much ... latter conviction is so compelling that I am trying to finish this blog ... , why is The prism opaque? This room makes the worst Maze ever. It'd be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... being stingy with snow days, so it is usually mostly aspirational ... driving through it—but the snow's presence was enough to bring me some well

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020