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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  amount of ethyl acetate at a given purity per year. Ethyl acetate is a very ... Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  the hearts and souls of more than one admissions officer here at MIT ... about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

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

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... (this year, it begins at sundown on March 19). In the interest of keeping ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... very busy one here at MIT Admissions! This week, The Tech, MIT's ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 camera at the MIT Hobby Shop. After months designing and building this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Here at MIT, you can find students pursuing hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT ... the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  grade at the end of the semester before deciding if you want the class to ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... . Anyone know where to find info on that?) At the same time, no matter how ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  my background of a very diverse family, I feel very comfortable here at ... pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... popular at MIT." Hi Farai, So to respond to your first question, I think I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  point of Redux Toolkit, you need at least passing familiarity with Redux ... example; feel free to skip to the bullet points at the end of this section ... in the wrong place: it was in the place of the old file at that index

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you ... first years A lot of people ask me "What's dorm hall food like at MIT?" to ... all my heart and I missed her so much when I was at home. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In ... left at the end of the day. As delicious and high quality as what you ... of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022