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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally ... aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January ... expenses covered by MIT.  
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was ... by the prospects of attending such a seemingly homogenous academic

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  absolutely hate the process. alan: sure, maybe you hate it because of how ... than suicide. cj: and by the way, i'm the one in charge of my life. i ... content warning: extended discussion of anxiety, depression, suicide

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  Velodyne LiDAR Puck and ZED Stereo Cameras. By the end of the semester, you ... !” By the end of the session, people are slithering on the ground like a ... class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by ... of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  can then choose to accept our offer (it is an understood part of ... committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many ... on the waitlist to about 500 people, and many of those people accepted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  do that style of blog again, except I decided to torture myself by ... processed that... that is a lot of years of schooling   10/12/23I ... to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science experiments: 2nd Grade: Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? 6th Grade

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  bootloader. After three days at the mercy of How-To Geek and Super User, I ... school ran out of vouchers to take these exams so I never got certified but ... at the beginning of July. They gave me an estimated repair time of two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a ... Love by BØRNS - I have a very distinct memory of my friend who lived a ... in our Walounge, and we play it at the end of every party hosted by 1E

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  /index.html The flying luxury hotel of tomorrow: Cruise ship will sail through the air, not the water By Joshua Tompkins Popular Science Thursday ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  interwoven. For him, even the laws of motion and the path taken by a ray of ... of Locke, whose Woof rages dire, Washed by the Water-wheels of Newton ... general idea of religion which was that of a universe ordered by a supreme

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  .  Then, began the process of writing three blog posts, pieces of writing ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  -Shave-November, as practiced by natives of New Hampshire, are sacred, but simple ... importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer ... like a lot of people view humanities as something to deal with and sweep

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023