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• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  -provoking conference. Thursday through Sunday, I was in St. Louis for the annual ... collegial idea-sharing, I've returned with some thoughts on how to improve our ... conference I've attended where the participants are housed in dormitories. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  in the long run. i started reading ask polly articles and subscribed ... want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  successful -- I cried at every single movie I saw in theatres in 2005. While ... in my form (to the lovely Jessie, I might add), I ran into my friend ... ), and I'm heading to a PhD program in biology. And it's all super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for ... 'm excited to see how different my academic life will feel now that I'm out of ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... wide range of opportunities, and I’m able to serve my country in a way

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior ... up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  've been learning how to knit! I've gotten pretty far in terms of my crochet ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... sequences I've put in are way too similar, and essentially, the tree search is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... wonder how long that will last. Though I remember that the first time I was ... fire extinguisher down the stairwell. I must have misheard that. Even in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  in college, I never took a visual arts class, despite looking through ... prickling in the back of my mind again. When I was in middle school, I wanted ... this summer, and I was in Cambridge. So I signed up for Alternative

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  some direction in chats with him. "Not that Jack would expound on ... hope in some small way I might have touched theirs. ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  concept. You've twisted my mind in ways I didn't know it could twist before ... equations and formulas that I learned in high school, but by making me apply ... problem suddenly makes sense.  And in those moments, I think I'm finally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Science), and probably more fields in the future. I've also taken more 18 (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the ... 'd like to go to grad school, but right now I'm not sure in exactly what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For ... undergraduate, a graduate student, and a member of the faculty. I would also

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  curricula in Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); I know ... registration, which can be a big pain. Notes for those driving in I've been living in Boston for 11 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel - Open Rehearsal" and asked if I would be interested in attending ... in 2009. Yep. Definitely not a musical instrument. I got a little ... little timpani player. "He's the best timpani player I have ever seen in an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  my Astrophysics pset (I typed up answers in LaTeX.) So, I doubled back ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... before noon; I figured that even though classes start at ten past, it would

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  , when I expected the retreat would still be going on. But a short email exchange later, I realized we actually would be back in time. I’ll fill out ... , October 14th at our Heads of House’s cabin in Concord, MA. As we drove, I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024