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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... cool to see the city from a little kayak. The place that rents out these ... the T, which is uber-convenient given that both of us needed to get off

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  't that different). Occasionally in the middle of a solo she would fall to ... -Pie album cover, and uploaded a .zip of the performance to my MIT webspace ... leadership and management skills. The best part of these concerts is that they

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  to head back into the city and catch her flight. She's off for a ... -English-speaking Ecuadorian family and tried very hard to communicate. The two questions that ... potatoes mixed with cheese and fried. After dinner, we took a cab back to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  drawing conclusions, and realized that there are a couple of key information ... challenge me to take a step back and take a look at the whole summer and apply ... database, and fill in the gaps. The other intern and I had to come up with a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  chalk, and about a quarter mile, we made it to the 1000th square! We ... hopscotch is inherently ephemeral, a wisp of joy and beauty that can only be ... same square by the same person. and in the end, we converged on a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  the athlete as "one willing to take on a challenge" and who is "not ... baseball team, which this summer is trying to earn a third trip to the state ... country. "Besides, baseball and math go together pretty well. There's a lot

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual ... , it is not our goal to admit the "best" students (whatever that means ... applicants who happen to attend that school.   The bottom line is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  choice of "this is what I am willing to give up", that wasn't a part of the ... upperclassmen to exert on freshmen, and that because they've been there longer ... lecture, never skipped a problem set. Failing here and there is ok, when you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors (that is, rising juniors and ... Beginning a week from Saturday, MIT will be going on the road with ... will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also describe

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  needed. for a while we thought we’d need to run the av and next sing sound ... next sing speaker to serve as a monitor during the concert (a monitor is ... ’t say much about the actual concert other than that it went fine and a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  rubric for the comic and discovered, to my horror, that there were a couple ... gluttonous delight of all. and so the semester comes to an end. a handful of ... that i would attend six classes a day with the same group of friends for

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  being a graduate student (heh), according to Phil, is the opportunity to ... of the most intense and time-consuming classes in Course 6, is a course ... on the job, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, students from

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... part of the problem is thinking that just a little more engineering will ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and ... question of how to evaluate and troubleshoot user interfaces. The one that ... the Kinect (no color information!) and is able to identify parts of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  ? The idea is that you happen to be in the same elevator as the CEO and ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it ... looking at. The MIT connection is a great way to find an in. You have to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  and coconut husks (bikes, ect). There are only a few of the ideas we ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will ... about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  's also important to have the change be gradual and continuous so that there ... white (which is harder to see here just cause of the lighting), and ... through. But to make ornaments and all the other pieces, you gather on a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  )!![/caption] Unfortunately screw #2 (and all the ones that come after it) is a lot more rusted ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012