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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  collapsed afterwards) -Is trying to decide whether 66 units or 54 units sounds ... these blasts from the past find you sometimes. I know it is stressful and ... ) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it ... cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... progressed is to never mention terminology before explaining the associated ... presented it to my all-course-6 recitation, they apparently found this slide

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  hobby, right? Didn't want to study it to death, else I might start looking ... looked so interesting. And that's not to say it doesn't now. I'm just ... expertise didn't vanish, the interest of pursuing it seemed to. I guess it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required ... let me know if it's completely illegible. I have a tendency to really ... about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  ? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many people we will ... tricky. It is hard to know who will choose to come and who will go ... "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  , meaning the arrival window is ~15 minutes, so it would take 20-40 minutes to ... recevied such harsh but simultaneously useful feedback. It was also lovely to ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... together a guidebook, and answering a giant stack of email. It's going to be ... Sand Mandala (continues through Saturday of CPW, be sure to check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again -   two ... to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it ... Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to ... "Splash" on it? What is "Splash"? Me: "Splash" is a teaching program. TSA ... to adulthood! After I made it through security, I found myself right

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  needed some way to assert my individuality. It was probably among the less ... , humid, my hair is out of control, and I'm not going to see Diane until ... things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  year after college, I somehow never made it down to Stanford during that ... think Ben & Jerry's is good when you eat it out of the pint, but that pales in comparison to tasting it right off the production line - trust me

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  any dorm, each floor is said to have its own culture. Can you kind of ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson ... choose to live. RBA is available only in Next House and McCormick Hall

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  what an AMA is, it's basically a Q&A session with a person or group of people based on a specific topic. It has its roots from the r/IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is ... so far. Technically it's a grad class, and yeah the class is about half ... about [x], extend your ideas to reflect that new insight." It was really

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  , medium format workhorse weighing in at about 8 pounds with its 180mm lens—to ... majority of my prints to gatorboard. The process is quite simple: Dry mount paper is cut to size to fit the print. Dry mount is waxed-based and will

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  is a way to get a model to look as though it was drawn with hatch marks ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we ... animatable characters out of it! Here is one of them. [embed

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  were so many knowledgeable people who gave their time to make it possible ... really hard to organize and plan the trip and make it an incredibly rich experience. To give you a sense of what it was like, I'm going to share some

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018