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• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... . Has life been perfect in the Alpha Phi House? Of course not and to say ... lots of wonderful things that have come from my time in the house. I did

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  varsity sport. The range of gym classes is really outstanding, some of them ... lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute, and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876 ... a boat. "Before" image of the '67 Bel Air courtesy Amrys Williams

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to ... admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as ... MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... . You provide us with a home-- an often-decorated dome (by the work of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish ... of the ocean, as stray bait floated down from the sky. The fish

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... 'm disappointed to miss, the great Hawaii Club Luau, the beginning of the Buddhist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  mailing list of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association, or (SUMA). I ... state-of-the-art Trading Room. ~ Learn about market efficiency! ~ Compete ... in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the ... sense There was a hack today! Like any hack, the code of ethics was strictly followed (as per usual) with the possible exception of the last one

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... , drastically boosting productivity and solving one of the largest computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  quite a bit of time in Ilani’s room. For the summer, though, PUF was ... -side lounge and kitchen. PUF spent the summer enjoying a variety of activities ... think the dildo reminded PUF of Black Hole?" - Grace S. '23[/caption] and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... 't so obviously useful - but is probably one of the most special classes I ... signed up for the latter along with half of MIT, because how could anyone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013