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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there ... things here and there on the blog, but I'd be doing a lot more of them were

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  's too science-fiction.'" You can read the entire articles here: MIT ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... many paths to try. But you won’t know where one is going to lead until ... fearing "falling behind" is being constrained by the pressure of following a

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  invitation to explore other options, and, like a puzzle, figure out how you can ... affirmative decision tomorrow. Please fight those thoughts. A decision is not a ... or experiences. A decision is not a culminating experience or the end

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  where you get the sniffles, skip class, and get a Happy Meal. It was just ... headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview your application as a PDF. You should do this so you can see how we'll see you application. A common problem is typing in too much and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  .) So, I'll sell my soul a little and turn this entry into a what is basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... students teach local high schoolers a huge array of topics. Splash! is a ... classes that last an hour or two, and the idea is that you should teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  thought it was a pretty good anime. it’s the kind of story where there’s ... website traffic[/caption] the thing about code jam is that you only see a ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  , like the one in Prague. This is actually a field of huge stones, and you ... picture of a broken chains statue that I saw on a postcard. You can normally ... DID YOU KNOW? Conservative pundit Ann Coulter once described on a VH1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  There is probably a meter somewhere that measures how much fun you ... got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  speakers that played a recording when you stood on a circle in front of them ... there's a tarp saying "Openness" right behind doors that aren't open ... exhausting but fun. If you can, check out the MIT Museum when they open on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  transferring. College is a blur of events that’ll leave you wondering where the ... are. Home is where your friends are, and if you’re open about yourself ... This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  that can't be covered with a pile of spackling is the hole between the ... when the screw head gets so worn down that you can't remove it using a ... slipping. You can see below that if you strip a Phillips head screw (the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  problem so you can sign up for a class you are actually allowed to sign up ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are ... , the excruciatingly detailed how-to-do-everything-that-you-can

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Snowsical The blizzard of February 13th

  

  ?♪ ♫Underneath the Dome is where I stand, looking far offinto a winter wonderland ... blizzard is coming up and hitting the Northeast real hard (Déjà vu).  It's a ... us when we're sick, Is covered in snow, but only a few inches thick

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place where you don't know anybody. There are some obvious answers to this. One ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  I'm enthusiastic about food nonetheless. On a scale from 1-10, where 1 ... just like good noms. There's a few eateries in the Cambridge/Boston that ... situated close to the Cambridge / Boston divide, there's also a number of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... . After all, MIT is one of those schools that you strategize to get into—you ... deadlines to pass so that you can just choose not to choose. Either way, here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked ... Twitter, Instagram, and tumblr, among others. You can think (as I do) of ... around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015