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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... , repositions itself, and eventually comes to rest in a place far enough away from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... enough to have good friends and a strong community to support me during that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in ... . Jackson, a father figure to generations of young men in the house, died of ... course, if a woman had to leave the room, all the men rose from their seats

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  become SAD too. So, inputs essentially lead to state change in a state ... the human person could be feeling meh. To add that, we simple create a ... thought to not using a state machine: Designing a calculator without

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  and the places that made you yourself. MIT wants to create a team (proof ... the intention to burn us to a cinder.” It’s a little too much, right ... has a rhythm to it. Sentences vary in length. Some are short, especially

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The ... background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today ... purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... that he expected to be doing the same for us in a few years. Um, no ... stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... particular, used mathematical concepts to reinforce his optimism that a supreme ... wrote a book, Introductio ad Quadraturum Curvarum (Introduction to the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  then headed out to Sonic (a drive-in burger restaurant) for lunch, where ... , headed to Olive Garden for a well-deserved dinner, and then called it a ... touching somebody else's airplane. This is important when you have 80 teams

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too ... in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... more than just a niche - they've given momentum to an overseas movement

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade ... figure now is a good time to start. I ended my wanderings after sitting on ... as a person. My 7.02 scientific writing teacher told us we have to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... students and administrators as to the purpose and importance (or the name ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  with undergrads and is there to be like a first point of contact for help ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center ... carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... (hang on, I’ll get to that), I decided that was a perfect time to make

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to write some poetry, but I had a powerful urge to write a blog post and not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  ant06 wrote, "is it okay to get a recommendation from a teacher who's teaching you a subject you are not planning to further pursue, as against the ... provided good answers to a lot of the questions about the process): The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth deciding whether or not I was going to fully major in computer science with a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  [which would turn out to be a very important mistake later].  They open ... ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This ... and emailed me asking me to audition. As a shy freshman, even the ... last February, I knew I had made a grave mistake; I knew I needed to be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... to leave a legacy" sense, but how to do my best to leave the school ... service. Exercise more. In 2018, I went to the gym three times a week. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020