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Blog / MIT Life
East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)
for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in-depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.
arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and why I was in town -- as if following a script -- and then asked me what -
Blog / Admissions
Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.
admitted, in all likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist. What should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT, you -
Blog / Challenges
Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18
material in their classes. Suddenly, you fall into a spiral of “how do i even ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly -
Blog / Admissions
About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.
-- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... , we would accept any current teacher for the B Evaluation. I also get ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of -
Blog / Events
The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog
the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... -case gains”). Raw Bar was a late-in-the-day idea. I was looking over a sushi -
Blog / Academics & Research
So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.
It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in -
Blog / En Español
Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned
I won't keep you in suspense, I feel like I fit in pretty well at MIT ... Weekend: do Latino parents feel welcome at MIT? I won't keep you in suspense for that question either, I don't know the answer. I would sure hope -
Blog / Events
Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty
've ever been so worn out in my life. I know a lot more quantum than when the ... Physics lab. Oh boy, where would I even begin. Some of the setup (the MIT ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of -
Blog / How to Human
selecting for obsession
’s curiosity. When I ask Chris how he got into chemistry, he tells me about ... that’s what I find so compelling in other people, too. Reckless curiosity ... This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was -
Blog / MIT Life
Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.
only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I -
Blog / Challenges
sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment
wonder: how can i support and motivate myself in the same way my friend was ... explained that i was extremely spiky in high school and had been transitioning ... i had back in high school. i am disappointed in myself for slipping -
FAQ / Academics and research
What kind of things can I do during IAP?
in the big, wacky, comfortable chair called IAP. Sandwiched between the ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP
my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... , why, it must be because I have a math class at 12 PM and would not like to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due -
Blog / Academics & Research
I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…
, however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... .012 is and if you should take it in the fall and hey, how come MIT doesn ... in place of class names will be prevalent, but don't worry - I -
Blog / Academics & Research
What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math
zonotope themselves. Notice how, when I drew the edges in this example, I ... plane, no two of which are parallel. I picked four vectors. In this ... if it won’t intersect with it. In my example, I’ll draw the third -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.
otherwise would sail over their heads. Co-founder of iRobot was told 'that ... Technology in 1990, Greiner founded iRobot with a classmate, Colin Angle, and ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i -
Blog / How to MIT
Places to Sit at MIT and study
I came to MIT with an ambitious goal: to sit everywhere on campus. Oh yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my -
Blog / Admissions
See You Later
frankly thought it would be a short stopover on my way to law school. I was ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program
