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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... papers on pretty much whatever I'm interested in--my first paper was a five

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of Shaena B. '13 and Jen W. (grad student in Biological Engineering). They had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... + physicists in the room went "oooooooh!" My laptop screen glowed at me and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  successful fashion / clothing kickstarter in history, with over $400,000 raised ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  mathematical set "inside". But that's not (entirely) true. In fact, there's a ... wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  This started off being a comment in snively's entry. Then it branched ... running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself ... that advice. I do it myself sometimes, usually when I'm in a terrible

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in studying the field in college. At a recent admitted student event (*shout out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in ... breakfast was tasty, so it all works out in the end. Anyway! Enough of that ... property to put off writing about last semester even longer in favor of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... waiting in line when term actually starts.) Chatted for quite a while with ... Jessie's "partner-in-crime"), who was back in Boston for the weekend. Got

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the ... enjoy a birthday cake that his girlfriend made for him in the kitchen (he

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  I am about to head out to do the MIT presentation in Westchester County, having just spent the week in New York City and Long Island ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... consecutive all-nighters in the three days before Thanksgiving break, and let me ... 're going to be important for the rest of the class. In 5.12: Organic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have ... asked in an advising survey whether or not my freshman year "met my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... : [MIT students] Subject: Candle-light Vigil for the Earthquake Victims in ... Victims in South Asia Come show your support for the Earthquake Victims in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  mostly from the East Campus dorms and the ILG Epsilon Theta. People in the ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the ... attempted to dance twice, not counting flailing around to music in the living

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  the Macy's parade in a tee shirt. Actually, since that one snowfall, the ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have ... about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  make from this post to relief in Ukraine. If you'd like to join me, the ... going to the hospital in Mexico meant dying attached to a ventilator ... , still, help me function more or less in the way I want. But there’s been

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  by eminent faculty on the latest educational developments in MIT ... , engage in different modes of thinking, and practice problem solving by ... process of creating an online course for 21G.027 Visualizing Japan in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a ... , and one chemistry. They're all pretty similar, structurally. In fact, I ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022