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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at ... hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer ... of a non-real-time graphics engine. In real life, photons bounce off of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... the question in the last paragraph. In a mentally demanding job, loving

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  he played The Fonz in Happy Days). 20.441 is probably my favorite class ... everyone in the class and he's gonna cold-call you and make you think on your ... the real world in front of the whole class even though you were totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every ... in place of my usual verbosity.    

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... 've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ... legacy title. In reality, we're a student run hackerspace that draws a ... MITERS. It's a really incredible atmosphere to immerse yourself in, where

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  like: Have faith in the fact that everything you’ve put forth has been a ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... . Panic. Panic. But I remembered a general lesson I learned in the past

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions: Thursday 12/16, 9pm EST On Thursday evening, our admissions decisions will be online.

  

  , simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  in common? Well, first, they’re all what people traditionally take ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood ... in the hopes of securing a game buddy. “Nah,” he said, shaking his

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit ... -controlled set in a "disembodied performance" that integrates with and enhances the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot ... in the sun for the last two days, and when I got on it to ride to work ... pictures!) in the next week or so. and last, but definitely not least, 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  memorable events in 18.02 (Multivariable Calculus) took place the day just ... be unlike the homework in that the problems will be solvable ... semester, many of us did our homework in groups - before we figured out that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Well, you just cost me money.” Best. Desk Call. EVER.

  

  automatically assume that you're some crazy child genius and an expert in anything ... forwarded me this in the meantime and I had to share. ---------- Forwarded

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 23, 2010