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• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a minor in 14 [layman's terms: Management Science with a minor in Economics ... completely unrelated to his class and made himself incredibly available as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my ... a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  someone who has a crush on you that you don't return their feelings. Useful ... take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... senior thesis project, taking a wine tasting class, hopefully making some ... students who have shown a strong commitment to studying French at MIT. On

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Harmony. If you find that you and your host are not a good match, don't suffer ... representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that CPW isn't a typical ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a ... don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how to appreciate the good things, like a letter from home, fried eggs and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  the blogs already but I can't find it, so sorry if it's a repeat ... accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire ... and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  recommendation, but if your application didn’t include a math/science teacher ... MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math/science teacher and a humanities/social science/language teacher. We accept Quest
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  the US. Addis Ababa doesn’t have a lot of tools and parts readily or ... tinkering just because you don’t have a lot of resources. “I’d really like a ... sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don't ... This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  Cena a Las Seis (photo from last year's post, This Isn't Goodbye)   ... Family Weekend was a lot of fun. I can't wait for the next one. Left side ... I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  1st, I'm currently competing in a high-stakes race through classics of ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... idea and a fun play! Enjoy! PS: If you haven't read The Great Gatsby yet ... While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  ? There's a feeling that goes something like "ugh, if only I'd taken more ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me. Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even ... were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  ). I took the occasional break to have a hot drink inside. I'm being ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to take. 12.409: Hands-On Astronomy. It's a 6-unit P/D/F (your options are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  hockey jersey, I swell with pride. It's a great design for a uniform (I'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my ... glowing. Really, IM sports are the coolest thing ever! It's a great way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  or Terrascope. Haven't written a Guild game yet. Never played an ... professors, including Nobel Laureate Philip Sharp (I didn't take a class from ... resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ...  complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021