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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  me is fully aware that when it comes to sports I L-O-V-E the University ... . All I can say is wow! If you happen to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ... . As I drove into Norman it was hard to see the road because of the tears

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  Institute's capacity for innovation.  MIT SHASS is home to research that has a global impact, and to superb graduate programs, all recognized as ... School's portfolio is vast, including: anthropology; comparative media
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top ... to continue doing. So what is RUNE as a club like? We are a group of ... the mellowness - that way, it's easier to avoid bureaucracy, value each

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  general may seem now - you can and will find yourselves equal to it ... is not to overwhelm you with knowledge and make you want to shout "IHTFP!" from my (I mean, your) dorm room window. It's to show you exactly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  the freight industry. It's all new to me, coming from the passenger side of things. I suppose the best part is that it's all making sense so far ... context to lend. The hardest part about this work is getting up around 7AM

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  surreal to lecture where Eric Lander lectures. It was also totally surreal ... ) and then it was already five minutes into my class so I had to give up ... sun is just another star, then even further back to 16th century Poland

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... the one before it, so there was pressure to get a working solution every ... timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... of my friends and everything around me is that hundreds of other people on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration ... the news of its opening gave the Times an excuse to write about gifted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  spring to celebrate Drop Date. Burton 3rd...is Burton 3rd, in all its glory ... opportunity to elaborate a little on what she said, because it's an interesting ... looks, in the words of my little sister, "like it's going to walk across

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... 't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their ... small strip of grass between Walker Memorial and Building 14. It was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide ... ; It's felt quite anti-climatic to be done, a feeling that seems to ... least for me, it's hard to completely relax and resume to normalcy after

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  . Maybe you went, "wow, is this title yet another bad pun?" And indeed, it is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... electronic device. I remember it reasonably well due to the traumatic nature of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to ... about when it came to Camp Kesem. At that time, I responded that I wasn ... -up question to this during the interview was how I'd handle this situation if it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  . Best of all, the rink is open to all students nearly every day. It ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... . The interview is not a required component of the application, and the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only during IAP. It is student-taught: I actually knew/were friends with several ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  ethnic minority in Vietnam. It is beautiful, and there is clean air, a ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... large bonfire, their reason for being there unknown to us. It was starting

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006