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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Emporer of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddartha Mukherjee This ... Safran Foer The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera I also ... David Foster Wallace The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is ... of tips for applicants based on interviews I have conducted. Remember

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  buns that have been fingered by an uncounted number of people before ... possible modes of entertainment provided by a beach ball and 80+ paddles ... , fiery lightness, riffed by gentle ripples of cold water, I silently vowed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  . '20 Folding by Elizabeth C. '13 In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 by ... letter. That moment, you will split into two versions of yourself: the you ... facets of who you are. Neither can the words "accepted" and "rejected

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  the MFA to see a screening of the documentary Urbanized. It is by Gary ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] This semester I am currently taking STS ... ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last ... our road trip, mostly inspired by the one of us that is not Jess Lin. We ... , I became irreversibly disillusioned by a formula of two parts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  our 2-number comparator works only 20% of the time -- since by flipping ...  N log N of these to be correct). A single majority answer is obtained by ... A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  — by 2048. "It looks grim and the projection of the trend into the ... "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of ... the backs of cod." -Alexander Dumas, 1873, on the prolific reproduction

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9 ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last semester, it was cancelled, so I was out of luck. So this term, since I knew

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his mnemonics for learning the order of the planets was "MVEMJSUNP" pronounced 'me

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments ... , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor. (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of ... , you may be allowed to demonstrate that you're entitled to such credit by ... description of the Institute's academic programs. Transfer students typically
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  data to the statistics file, where I analyze it by type of day (schoolday ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by ... was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  actual competition was an entire showcase of both projects by students and ... "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  who happens to drop by! Think of it as a CPW for adults =p - check out ... of sucked, other than Sara Bareilles :p) ----- (2) I'll let Shaq ... jealous of my life. ----- (3) Recently, there was a College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Kim Affair It's been fun, guys.

  

  [ETA] THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TRUE. It's a joke created by The Tech ... the SATs (just by putting your name on it) is a 600, combined. My point is, don't take this seriously. Read it with a sense of humor. Call your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted From The Waitlist? If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the…

  

  If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the Admitted Students Portlet in your MyMIT account. Go sign the MIT ’10 guestbook!

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 16, 2006