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• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  them, but in total, it comes out to something like 35-40, hence the ... shirts into a giant queen-sized quilt, and I'm SUPER excited to see it. I ... main quest, really, more than it is a sidequest - and I can see it mapped

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• 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 / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... remind myself that, even when it sucks, MIT is home. It is my community and ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• 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 / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  neighbors, it seems like as good a time as any to crank out some thoughts on ... -polarized component of the pulsar's signal rotates on its way to Earth, due to the Milky ... current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  You asked for it[citation needed], and so here it is. After the list ... very good story.) WMBR is the campus radio station: it began in the ... idea for a crazy Splash class, and may have mentioned it in half-jest to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can ... it takes more than one gender to build a just and fair world.  How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  , dropping my A to a C. The sad part is that I still cared, even though it was ... ’t figure it out. One of my biggest barriers towards success was that going to ... ."]OX[/annotation] when I had no other choice but to ask for one. My OX is still not

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... button-making Warning: this part is going to start off happy, and end ... Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  designed to kindle the creativity again, and it is so liberating. ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... adjustment period, full of trial and error, just as it was intended to be. IAP

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  Wierum)[/caption] As it turns out, relying on measurements was going to be ... product I used Medibang Paint to make it all pretty. Some small issues I ... chordates to arthropods is a whopping 25:1, with BAC's (informal) bee mascot

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  immunology. Melis is (according to this list) the 38th MIT student to win the ... coverage of the Rhodes announcement: It occurred to Melis N. Anahtar's family ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  , and what should the United States do to solve it?" Two fellow bloggers ... producer at the History Channel happened to read it, contacted Zahir, and ... World: MIT Speaks, that showcases 25 undergraduates' responses to the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  you can't tell, the flag is white with a red cross on it. Okay, I ... When I came back to England from Easter vacation, I was greeted by ... . I whipped out my camera and we agreed that whatever it was, it would

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008