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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  to fill with people. It was AWESOME. A great way to start my mini ... you want to grab one. You guys had me laughing out loud with your comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get ... . There had been more TAs for a while, but in 004 they tend to leave shortly ... in on time, you get full credit. If you turn it in late, you get half

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  civilization in history has had a working answer to. "How did the universe begin ... in lines outside" is not something MIT ESP is used to working with ... have you. On the last day, I found an excuse to squeeze in some radio

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  ") and Crowded House ("Don't Dream It's Over"), in addition to naming 5 of ... 'm supposed to be one of the young, hip people in the office, but one major way ... ..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed ... 't have available at the time. Looking to the right in my room. This wall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in ... media projects in close collaboration with faculty * Works with faculty to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems ... originally wanted to take the undergrad version of this class, but last ... /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  with most other cryptography, no idea if I’ll ever get to apply it in the ... Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... by the time you get to the end you’re different than you were at the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to ... some more and wrestle with the program to try to get a drawing or two out

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

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  television shows in the world. Still, I think it's safe to say that the typical ... get into MIT undergrad. And then every college in America could do the ... You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the ... foreign language to me as of now, so I am really working extra in this class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... because none of us had ever been to Rhode Island before. In an attempt to ... nice to be in a more peaceful environment after the busyness of Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW and other acronyms C.Y.G.W.T.S.F? I.F.C,I.B.Y.C!

  

  freshmen class about CPW last year to give you an idea of how things will go ... weather machine is up and running in order to give you all some of the best ... be setting foot on campus, many of you for the first time, to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 16, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering ... an international intern before. A few nerves started to kick in, but I ... started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  admission protocols should attend to how social class is...encoded in non ... [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text ... efforts to understand how we can best evaluate academic readiness for all

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022