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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  is forming giant brown-black polymers akin to bread crust in the 250 C ... , in conclusion, Chemical Engineering at MIT is the most perfect major at ... output and composition of the products. Our work is not so much theoretical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  in the housing lottery, REX would have given me the chance to change my ... DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  see the various dorms and what life is like in them. Does he have to ... is across the bridge in Boston: he's coming a long way to get the feel ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just ... putting together the event for us. Most of them came in from London, which ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  attitude with work in the past, see e.g. there is no such thing as a typical ... , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  ] figured out that our career goal is to work in the Animation Industry, we ... what we wanted to learn. Even though the skill is most likely pretty ... you to a career in animation -- is something we would have really wanted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow ... , is all leading up to the observation that the geographical environment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to ... to take the time to evaluate where I was in each of these two classes

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  talks about how overwhelming MIT is in this post, and i very much agree ... most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  separate sheet of paper is most common. In general, third recommendations from a teachers do not provide much additional insight; the most helpful ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  make it to every game and most of the practices to support my team in any ... on an 8 game win streak and they are the first team we’ve lost to in ... ="93086" /] Friday Went to Pappalardo in the morning with two other juniors and, with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  . The aim here is to see if there is a difference in the children ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  . This is the Boston term for a milkshake, from the French "frapper" ("to ... ], ice cream, and a tall glass to make a float. "Suds and a sidecar" is the ... . Milkshake: Technically, this is the same as a frappe. In Boston, however

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  issues like these, but I think one of the most important things is to ... nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... over the summer that I lived in Evan T. 19's room, where he installed chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  and support that so many people provided in order to make this the ... a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two ... amazing thing to see. Everyone from my friends, to most of the dining staff

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  to the window and see stars both above and below you. I'm in constant ... , and is basically just awesome; in my opinion, it should spread to high ... message - that you're never "too young" to kick butt in the space industry

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it ... interaction made your day? The trick to talking to people (at MIT and in real ... I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... supermarket shelf. This is, however, a cultivation (and not just in the bacterial sense). You see, though it is impossible to see in this photo, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes ... in my last blog (Seamless), Cracked was asked to throw the CAVS Giant

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008