Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  mentioned, StuffFest is organized by MIT SAVE (Share A Vital Earth), one of ... As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  demonstrate the sheer awesomeness of this process, Prof. Kaiser blindfolded ... . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  not one of them. By the time the debate ended, the phone had stopped ... about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  hardcopy of your updated transcript sent by your school, and even if your ... Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to be completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to provide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in the process of artmaking. I loved using my hands: rubbing charcoal ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  subsequent care and feeding of the cells that are grown. Inspired by Tamagotchis, the genetic transformation of an organism's DNA is performed by the ... and take care of their little ecosystem by feeding, warming, balancing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  been completely handicapped by an entirely virtual experience. Some of ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  continuing to process thousands of documents coming in. Once we're caught ... is an online form that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  relatively low CS experience by emphasizing one of the bigger projects I ... part of it. ** The binoculars-shaped LA office was designed by Frank ... defined by reading through heaps of code and extensive documentations

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  useful and minimal part of a fun process the feeling of trying seven ... put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  -to-day workings of the city, so we got to learn about things like the design process behind the trash cans and the type of barricades built by revolting ... at the entrance by Germain Louvet, a “star dancer” of the Opéra de

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  by a long shot. I wasn’t bored. In fact, I had a constant stream of oh ... few and far between, separated by large chunks of mild, crippling ... two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  part of the process i think i have become quite dull over the past year ... says something along the lines of: people are their blades! bluntness ... dedication of the self, and this naruto battle… well, i suppose you can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  is highly motivated by a sense of purpose and working with other people ... process for filtering our images to make sure that each of our icons in each ... infographics. How could we get so much data? By harnessing the power of MIT

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  process.) Every year, a group of sophomores, formally known as the Ring ... of the kangaroo which, like Tech, goes forward by leaps and bounds ... dark." Though some aspects of the ring always appear by tradition, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of ... college admission process. Give them MIT’s list of qualities and start ... Experimental Biology and Communication) and The Elements of Style by Strunk and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  definitely still a considered part of the application process, but are not by ... pool. Some of my friends have been saying I got in because of my citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  's and Paul McCartney's sections of the song, which was created by a group ... Before college, I was by no means a hardcore Beatles fan. When I was a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  the car.   But eventually I got bored of “posing by trees ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010