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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . _________________________________ Q: I have a question about one of the short answer questions. There is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... . It's about that time of season when MIT students buckle down, chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way. ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the ... over 20. This was one of the most difficult things to do. Over time, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  things worth updating y'all about. So: a brief accounting/recounting of life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes ... . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006