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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of ... rather than sitting in a car on top of the track. We had the car-on-top-of-the ... was called "Danger Zone", which makes me think of the movie Top Gun. You

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But ... have our own power plant and all of the wires are underground), so as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  up with the rest of the MIT crew to attend the Dave Barry talk. Good ... lobby of our hotel, to the tune of $10/day. Ouch. At 5:30 PM, we got the ... we hit the town, where I got to see a lot of my old pals from the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better than good. So here are some things I've been up to over the last few ... such a situation, the first reaction we might have is that of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  scenes all of the time. A typical 2 hour class starts with a warmup, some ... have a few one act plays to my name by the end of the semester. Also, the ... the end of that course number means. You've probably heard by now that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  memorialize a lot of the good memories that I've accumulated along with the ... over the course of 3 years, and you pretty much have no other wardrobe ... -college life. You also realize that a lot of the shirts you've been hoarding

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is ... the most tangible example of this. One of the first things my roommate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... during the training, so I wrote on it instead. On the bottom of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of Caleb's bed, there's a lot of ramen. That is the designated communal food ... like playing video games, like Smash and Breath of the Wild. I like doing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  of transfer student Ian McKay featured on the MIT homepage today. It's pretty wild stuff. Good luck to all of our transfer applicants! ... applicants. While the selection process has not completed, we anticipate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... Recap Good luck to those of you applying with exams this week. ... My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated

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

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  fundamentals? Good question! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"]second[/annotation]class in the computer ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle ... Standing Exam instead. Because of that, this semester was the first time I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... something completely different and equally great out of the experience. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  : arranging interviews, getting good footage, and editing all of the clips ... of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time ... phone and then manually typed all of the data points into excel while I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but ... during it? IAP generally runs for the month of January, give or take a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  of the MIT community who have started companies or created products ... process. (You guys know how I feel about the thousands of vendors who ... with Michael about his vision for the next generation of college campus

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... classrooms around the building. It was pretty busy for the duration of the two ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005