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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every ... had to design the bricks ourselves and laser cut them out of cardboard ... sketch that could be an arbitrary number of sides. This seemed like a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers ... thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I hadn’t been working on my UROP. I say this in a sort of half ... sort of conflicted about whether or not I should do it anyway, because I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can ... and that one video of the goat singing Taylor Swift ever existed (I know

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... 's lectures were divided between two professors, both of whom I enjoyed. Once

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

    Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my ... Tabernacle). This makes Boston just a little more like home. A few of my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... RING PREMIERE. 3) Three of our Theta freshmen discovered gchat emoticons

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010