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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it ... at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ... think I’m crazy.   “I’ll get a UROP to have something to do.” But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say ... . But trying to rush that process thirty-thousand feet in the air just isn

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco in December 2019. I was there to ... museums that weekend, it was great. (not that there's much else to do in DC

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get ... practical knowledge, experience, and vision. How would they react to our ... , and intuitive, inherent beauty. Or, to put it in the words of

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to ... aplenty. I also learned how to focus a camera, for just about the first

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

   not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP. Somewhat anticipating Spain was going to get canceled before it actually did ... semester in CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory. In addition to this, I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  paint job. Sometimes people get enthusiastic and want to touch each others ... lot to finish final assembly and march our plane into the hangar just in ... then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... can’t do MISTI I’m looking forward to this class. 21L.702 Studies in ... day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction ... in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  't portray yourself in your application as who you think MIT wants to see ... to see how controllers manage the hectic load of Boston's four subway ... in mind. It was Tetazoo's turn last Friday, and to celebrate our

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby ... slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to ... numbers seems unintuitive. Buildings 3 and 4 should be next to each other

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  ." So how does this document, well over 200 years old, continue to shape ... . Maier's book, I knew I had to get it. Having spent a whole semester poring ... Constitution, I wanted to see how Prof. Maier crafted her argument (she was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... college textbook—and read it cover-to-cover. In seventh grade, he begged and ... —he had to play violin, he had to do worksheets in preschool while all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023