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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring ... perhaps no more than 70 students in the class. Contrary to what I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  IAP, and I have funding from a professor in the Biological Engineering ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I think they've got a high chance of taking off. I agreed to meet him in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... your financial documents, email [email protected]. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  normal day, we'd be gathered in Killian Court, and I'd be kneeling on the ... . And I know that, in this time of tension around the pandemic and rising ... . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before ... Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned ... and pick the place where you fit in best with the culture and residents

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  think I’m happier now than I have been in a very long time. I have more ... that, second because I have things that I want to do in my life, and ... very happy. In particular, I learned the word ‘scintillating’ and I love

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... empower communities via tech education and highlight bias in algorithms. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  , learn about their lives, fall in love with many, but can only choose a few ... ...all in hopes that they'll apply to our school. We wait in anticipation to see the applications roll in. Students enter into the application

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... message and empower students like us to believe that they too can make a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  called the Leadership Training Institute (LTI). In high school, I was involved in a similar leadership program. What I appreciated the most was the ... giving. Anne >> It's true. Of all the leadership roles I took in

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... contrast, the piano can sustain notes, and how hard you press is correlated ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and ... really liked 4. Nonetheless, here are the best movies I saw in the theater ... weeks, but I have already seen the movie multiple times in theaters. A lot

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  that just seemed like gross misuse of the Internet.) This is about how I ... salad, and I'm rarin' to go. (Have you ever noticed how sometimes the ... in Course 16, I remember that I am hardcore Course 9 and scare people

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my ... years of work they put in. On the other hand, people on the internet can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how ... thoughtfully, “This tastes like detergent.” That's how I lost my fear of cooking ... actually a bunch of beets. I swear, I must have been absent on the day in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you ... in school. I don’t have grade updates because: my school doesn’t do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were ... sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... do have any burning questions about MIT, you can always leave them in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  that I took here. I learned a ton about the manufacturing process in a ... ...  but more on that later! This blog isn't about the lesson I learned this year or my feelings.... no, it's about my favorite class that I took this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008