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• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... consumed and analyzed fiction I would never have picked out for myself ... slower (for good reason), and I have been spending a lot of time with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... far. A statement button: For those into feminist think pieces as well as for those who may have never given a second thought to issues of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  out pretty well for you, didn't it, Washington? The statue in the ... command was something he had long envisioned for himself and driven towards ... up against British anti-American prejudice, and there wasn’t much he

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful ... a musical proto-language arose from selection for sex and sociability ... compete for resources and face hardships. Music induces release of "feel

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... .02 Multivariable pset this morning as well as study for the midterm exam tomorrow ... all time - and I’ve been eagerly awaiting its arrival for months. I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  know each other, our team leader and I met up over coffee. Or rather, the ... relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always ... cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , more than two, but only two matter here) lists in MailChimp for any given admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... saw my name on the list of recipients for a carnation, from the sorority ... Oudenaarden, my 8.03 professor. (Thanks for that, Sam.) On Wednesday, I had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  ’re getting trained in and feedback on. At least for me, I have trouble ... optimize the design of the bridge. Now, I’m a news editor for The Tech (MIT ... it ate up a lot more time than it needed to. The good thing about the

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a ... of imagery and symbolism, it makes for a good conversation piece, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... affects twenty colleagues' work. (I'm completely making these numbers up ... very messy rationalization. But you can absolutely take my word for my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... here, at this moment in time. Do you know how hard you've worked up until ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I'm finally awake enough ... some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... good school for pre-med students, especially since you've no doubt heard

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  that had been available for my browsing pleasure since December, I didn ... . Really that could sum up my experience – in fact, all of that food was ... classmates. That’s what really showed me that I can see myself at MIT for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  from Ramya '14! You might think that CPW stands for Campus Preview ... substitute for all of the other million pictures I could have taken, I'll use ... ended up not dyeing my hair...) to many more events that I wish I had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... , where all my media stops: I was playing for the rest of the night and, as ... the show, getting the audience to sing or get up and dance along, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about ... electroplushies at this SEBC event? they will be taking us for dinner after. If this ... know if you would be able to drop by! Thanks I, for one, thought this

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  Keith Zizza take the stage for the performance of a medley from the ... for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more up-tempo and driving sounds of action games. The rest of the evening

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  dorms on campus where you can paint your own walls and string up your own ... —our dorm has a certain amount of funding set aside for student painting projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  like? Was it as nice as Gmail? It's time for some answers! To check your ... ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... ). Setting up your MIT e-mail with Thunderbird is straightforward and MIT IS

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008