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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  now, many of you have probably heard of (or use) this, but I'm in love ... thought I'd share my station with y'all if you're interested. You can also go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  that when I look at it, I can find some form of enjoyment in the visual experience, and I can find colorful peace in the few stolen moments I have with ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the ... to discuss that in more detail, He can pull off wearing suspenders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  from MIT. I was burned out after last semester, and I don't know how I ... MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  probably can't get at another school or at a school in Taiwan?" Jennifer: "I ... MIT EC in Taipei). I'll try my best to translate/capture the most ... lot of pressure at MIT. I heard that if you get Cs for two semesters in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break ... . WHAT WAS I THINKING I CAN’T SKI RACE. I didn’t even really know anybody

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... bulletin board, of a garbage can, of a ceiling, of a vent, and of a door. I ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  MITAdmissions. If I could assign reading to prospective students like I can assign ... 've had a tremendous impact. In advance of this anniversary, I decided to ... 've gathered, but I am not that person. Part of the decrease in comment activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... Minerva has higher standards then Harvard, then how is a student who can ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  tried to do the right thing. I can only say that there are [annotation ... Today, I emailed the remaining candidates who have been waiting ... to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk ... musing about how I can improve the session I'm giving on the fly. Adittedly ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  two things that I want to throw at you today in this entry. The first ... new Macbook) and so I just used that. I don't know how to resize them ... MIT. In fact, I've set up a doodle. Don't worry about the numbers of the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... out." In my sleepy haze I grabbed the marker from him and went to the ... battles too, no matter how poor the odds seem. I slept like a rock for 2

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  becomes rich on Flickr**. **In all seriousness, I will give you full credit for your photos***. ***Let's see how many asterisked-footnotes I can ... Contest. In light of my camera's unusual bout of laziness over CPW, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... backgrounds, and only if they can demonstrate that [annotation note='In other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  diffraction patterns, I had a vague idea of how to structure (no pun intended ... underlying physics of strained silicon. Overall, I was happy with how this ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can ... computer in grad school. I suppose I should mention, in case it wasn ... Like Laura, I also read up a storm in the summer. I (re-)read Robert

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  my month old photos, so I can share them with you before they become ... duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... , which came all wrapped up in a bow. I took it apart and found each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• 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 ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as ... when I wake up and get out of bed in the morning (besides my alarm). The

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

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ... at 5 and starting at 7. Still, I can’t complain. I know how lucky we ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017