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• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... that interest us. This is not a for-credit assignment, just a fun project ... pedal power grinder (as maize is a major food crop, this pedal power

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  visit:(...." Yali, there's a bunch of stuff you should check out. The ... pretty snazzy. Also, there is a very active AOL Instant Messenger chat room ... you'll get a chance to experience both cultures and decide where you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  was there for. There had been signs up all over campus for a week or two advertising a guest lecture entitled "What is a gene?" I thought that was a stupid question, because I know what a gene is. It's a piece of DNA that is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  post can guide your own thoughts, the beginnings of a framework for you ... and come back at a later time”. you can read this post even if you don ... . i also hope you really do remember that who you are is not where you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... parking garage steps from the meeting location, and the campus is in a good ... teacher wrote. This may sound normal to you guys, but to me (a '92 high

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  . There is no better way to learn engineering than a better engineer tearing ... began, in Omaha, Nebraska. For the 9 day long tour, you can begin with a ... all times all three vehicles are in radio contact and there is also a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  originally accompanied a scene in Can Can where dancers were performing the ... the movie Can Can. (You know, the cheesy 1960 movie with Frank Sinatra ... is an aural duality, a good versus evil, present in the music. The

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... Requirements), and there's a really really good chance that a lot of you guys who ... restriction enzymes to cut DNA? what do you do about a protein that is produced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  paramount. A company without a theme is like old-style canned soup without a ... ? Suppose you have a scrollbar whose minimum value is 0, maximum value is 100 ... source project, which is a great idea. I urge all of you to join me in this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... is rather odd, but there you have it. Since this is the case at an ... . I work best in 2-hour intervals, preferably there is a change of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn ... - Boston is getting a lot warmer recently! hehe). Well, this post is more of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and ... , if anyone took any pictures, I may be able to post a few here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  -time, having a show at WMBR (you can listen to streams of everyone's shows! Do it ... just have no patience. College is the one time in your life where you ... to get through MIT is hard, and you'll often wonder whether or not the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  our fate, in fact, everyone got a letter and you pretty much knew if you ... can do about it. You've poured your hearts, souls and dreams into your ... challenge in the weeks ahead is to ultimately select a school from the list of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  . Then, there’s a phase where you use this data to find the final answer ... several puzzles, you get a series of answers. A meta is a kind of puzzle ... metametas. Usually there is a final runaround. Usually the hidden thing is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  think it is. Goat cheese + yogurt = amazing sauce that you can use as a ... worth it. Is there a better date night food??       ... ; Slapped! Oyster sauce is where it's at. I had a ton of frozen vegetables and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... /injury, but you can find it at the top of a WDTV (CONTENT NOTE) article from ... seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my ... overwhelming number of requirements/GIRs that are on there. Now if we take a ... though this class is a requirement, I'm going to enjoy it a lot. One of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  chemistry is like a puzzle. It's like one of those logic puzzles where you ... to know it's because Lisa is really allergic to ketchup. So you can ... incoherent than when I was trying to explain it out loud, but you can take a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007