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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  deal in the habits of atoms and molecules, economics explores those of ... normative component of the discipline, in contrast, tackles a different type ... enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  course 2A (a flexible degree in mechanical engineering) startup cofounder ... students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a variety of engineering disciplines because so many of my classes are in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  essentially doesn't buy into all this regency stuff and talks in matter ... and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  micro-internship applications opened up in September 2021, so I decided to ... contacted by Semantic Machines, which focuses on conversational AI. In fact ... : Welcome to Microsoft In some previous years, the Microsoft micro

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in Calibri. For the rightmost poster, the top half is also in Calibri. Then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... . The beaver sits on a dam made from eight ivy leaves and a pinecone. In ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  track progress this clearly in academics. How can you really tell if you ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... large, oddly-shaped area under the curve and zoom in: And then keep

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  . No. No. Nonono. Let me repeat that in case I wasn’t clear: No. The ... still covering old material, and there are no exams in sight. Perhaps a ... one particularly nasty hell week can instill in you, something I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... thought were acceptable answers. I barely finished on time and handed in my exam, semi-confident in my answers, overhearing everyone around me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned ... 'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  days to account for the way Christmas, New Years, etc fall in any given ... to participate in just about any of them. There are for-credit classes ... dent in that to do list! So if you've emailed me any time since the new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took ... worn task chair waiting patiently in the corner. Hi, chair! How do you ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... debates, and apart from those questions being very… relevant in recent ... court cases in American history. The professor was also a great lecturer

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... as a rough estimate of a company’s expected value in the distant future people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Eyes SHut - nocturne in c minor - Ólafur Arnalds ... more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous Peoples Day weekend in mid-October, and this month, a 3-day Veterans Day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018