Search

Search Results

• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  makes it so much easier to improve. Our rookies are terrifying in the ... just in time for the freshman spring season to finish. End of freshmen ... whirlwind of MIT makes the most mundane tasks into mountains to conquer. The

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  with . . . ” in order to evoke the accurate positional relationship of my ... this is legal?” (If you look closely at her sunglasses in the picture ... -haired megastar appearing at the MIT museum yesterday with almost as much advance

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot ... you reward. The key is to measure and reward the outcomes you want. And ... !). What is clear is that the learning that takes place in FIRST is not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  it now is because VagMo is about so much more than the weekend in which ... in the cast. Why? The Vagina Monologues are about so much more than ... afterwards, to quell my shaking nerves. When the cast list is released, I know

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• FAQ / Interview

  Do alumni conduct interviews?

  MIT's Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement ... most diverse, talented, and invigorating communities in the world.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  D/head scientist combo is because most of the people I know with PhD's have stayed in ... graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  of the most annoying (and therefore most rewarding) puzzles in the hunt ... most fun: Denial. Keep in mind that this is just a sampling. I slept a ... . Even if it is disturbing.) *pause* "Yes, we'd like to check the answer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on ... (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is ... of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  . Oh my goodness.) The couple to my left don't speak much English, but ... Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  (highkey) bad. The structure of the class really is made to give students as ... lecture. I've found the textbook to be most helpful and the notes more as a ... ] this class is taught in the TEAL/flipped-learning style, with lecture

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  the most. Talking to people, being in the center of things, making ... course I want to write. But that’s not why. I don’t know what the why is. I ... written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... insofar as learning to become a person in the world is hard, but becoming ... , I think the truth is much simpler than that. The truth is that you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  ="aligncenter" width="833"] the font is apex new, which is the closest to a font used in ... image is small but the mit logo has to work in small sizes so… okay i ... the MIT Faculty in their collections. I sent in a request to retrieve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  , in the chemistry curriculum, most grad students are required to take ... engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... most undergraduate curriculums is such that you're probably going to need

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... much talent and promise could end their own lives. In struggling to make

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... actually have power over. this is illustrated in quotes like the following ... own well-being. this is one of the reasons i was initially drawn to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  most about being a pledge. As the old scripture goes, to whom much is ... now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my ... , which is really the most important part. Speaking of fun, one of the most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008