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• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... planned). I think you can call next week as well. The number to call is 617 ... call? Usually the answer to this is no. Under the circumstances, we are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  foot to enter the US? Was I really moving to an apartment in Boston, to ... who wasn't related to me for the first time in five months. I still can ... ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  , one of the most important aspects of being here is the world directly ... is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and ... Harvard. The answer is yes. People usually go to Harvard for language

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend Akhil '05 MEng '06, who is the only other person from my high school to ... honest-to-goodness grown-up futures. We still have one foot in the college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... ones we used in 6.2050. Surprisingly, most of the code we write in 6.S ... first time that Joe is offering 6.S965. It’s admittedly not the most

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... the pset is due. Recitations aren't supposed to be something I play in ... too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... internship is over and I’m not working around-the-clock to meet my own ... past (past) week flew most of their field interns out to the main Redmond

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... , but i think this summer is a testament to the fact that you can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i ... jiahua, a friend we met in promys, and we decided to schedule dinner the ... 's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... the heirs that the race is on to claim his treasure, and leaves behind a ... much intrigue and humorous dialogue (the book is quite entertaining

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... capital (as her aunt suggests she do), she is refusing to participate in ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  the poorest country in the Western hemisphere - and most of all, how to ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest ... take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... to the layer you want the object(s) to be on. Now the image is in layer ... +s after the document is made to choose a directory, save, and rename if you

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... Ireland. The UK is the fully sovereign state that holds membership in the ... substitute teacher in the room during most days, which helped immensely with

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... in the admissions office to craft questions and prompts that elicit ... have said repeatedly over the years, “the factor that is both most

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... early admission rate is often much, much higher than the regular action admission rate). The reason is that we are committed to admitting no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006