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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... interested after the first hour, once I figured out how to turn on the ... ’t even remotely want to sleep – although a number of people in my row dozed

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  would like to get in contact with them to ask further questions, please email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . (Manchester photos to come soon, I promise!) I'll travel home on Sunday in time ... goes to this retreat at a Catholic college in NJ, and they make a banner ... thrilled to hear from them and said "Oh hi! How is everyone?" His immediate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... i can see how far others get when they push off and glide, or see how ... 's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  intuition. She did robotics in high school, already knew how to CAD, and was ... materials to make popping boba and talked about working in industry. I loved ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  ="Intro to Computer Science and Programming in Python. Runs for one quarter"]6 ... in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... Library. While I was walking through the Harvard campus to get there, I saw

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  share a lot of similar goals in getting the children to love learning ... away. In fact, he even began adding his own contributions to the project ... speaking to us in Creole. Marvin, who speaks French, asked him if he spoke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I ... for those who just tuned in) kid, I have to take this *one certain class ... Science and Programming. That’s right, folks, in addition to English and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... to an end - nor is it, for that matter, a question of finding how low

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... ."]Physicks[/annotation] How to actually use polar vectors! Basically this is the same thing as ... potential energy is lowest. This can be used to predict how far apart atoms

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  bound to each other, constantly in orbit, trying to survive the most ... , talking to editors at publishing houses who were interested in my book. The ... money from writing. Then more offers came in. And then I had decisions to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... benzenes really know how to react Bond lengths are equal, yeah that's a fact ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2 ... . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... we want to know how you spend it. Current music: Marvin Gaye, "What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... autonomy at MIT in order to be able to choose your own educational adventure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022