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• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  something a little more humanities-oriented. And perhaps even more importantly ... Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... , separating it from Boston). We got there early enough to have a great view of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  there. A second important takeaway is that the language we use to describe ... enact in order to best pursue a successful economy? Or more ... subject interesting. It seems totally fundamentally human to possess a basic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and ... love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... as FIESTACON and is sure to be every bit as fun and productive and a ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a ... a reminder to ask bigger questions--Am I making the most of my time ... have a flexible plan A, B, and C It's hard to get anywhere without some

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... become -- --- OKAY, so there IS a point to this entry! Here it is ... , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  machine suitable for a server, with delivery to my dorm, for a mere $10 ... musical prowess to a wide audience, so I donned my corridor gear and ... acted as a prop to distract onlookers. (Thanks to Hannah for the photos

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  ’s one thing to design a web app and another to build it, which can be very ... went from being a broke twenty-two-year-old with no college degree to a ... friends, or vice versa. As a corollary to #1, it’s fine to have bad taste

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn trying desperately to convince a young lady to apply to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  incredible young people to realize what they are capable of. This is a place ... . A place where sleep regularly takes a back seat to the intellectual ... certain twinkle in the eye. A certain beauty to the tilt of their head when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we ... Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a ... ."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a ... a crosswalk to go over to where it was waiting, and had to backtrack

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  provide models of the human brain, but it takes a human to apply facts about ... , outsource training to machines, and use our time to start mentoring—a ... Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  before. A few weeks ago, I agreed to teach a class with my friend Davie '12 ... overview of go playing computers 10 tricks you can do with a hat How to tell ... the periodic table How to make a perfectly cooked steak How to make

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  couple during the 1920's that decides to throw a party to make themselves ... to watch. Like I've said before, I am not a great photographer, but ... really impressed. Last semester I also went to a Gilbert and Sullivan

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... hanging in a golden chain This pendent world in bigness as a star Of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  , a senior majoring in Course 6 to learn about her experiences with the ... if you’re looking for a detailed curriculum, go to http ... Python programming and circuit theory in order to control a robot. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  to this question out of anyone. But I think it's a terribly important ... encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense, there's a great deal of "peer pressure" to achieve excellence. Some of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  that they’d drive me to places I’d want to go. So, I didn’t feel a ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... what I was doing. All this to say that until this summer I was a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021