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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational ... . Folks came to the meeting from far and wide, such as Tallahassee (thanks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  functionality a bit to make sure you're seeing new stuff all the time. The major part of my proposal was an outline to turn the portal into more of a ... with the authors of our features. I think we'll be able to get there in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of pressure trying to summarize myself in a few sentences. Should I mention the ... . Nevermind the why and wherefore: let's roll back the clock to April 2011, when

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  that's where the money is." Well, organizations love Facebook (and other ... and Circumstance bellowed off the bricks nearby. Over the din, a friend shouted that his older brother had something called The Face Book, and that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... that the square root of a meter per second is a fundamental dimensional ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  that was honestly a highlight of the weekend! There is a high likelihood ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we ... drove up to help us clean our room (a dumpster at the time), and to bring

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  , besides insisting that we serve corn on the cob, was deciding on a theme. Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the ... wanted to tie in the Olympics somehow, but no such luck there. Sorry, Paris

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  have since dropped to four. Besides that, there are a few things that ... -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... in releasing work that I think is wrong, and it's a little painful

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one ... selectively to faces over objects presented in the visual field, and Nancy ... and co-authored just about every neuroimaging paper that isn't a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  and pushing the button that opens the front door. Working desk is a ... want to come to an event with me and a couple other people from the ... the blogs- it can be blamed on one of two things: 1) The Shift and A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  friends and I made our way down to the Revere Beach (a short 15-20 minute ... of the ocean. The wind had a refreshing coolness to it, and as we sat ... The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... : College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions ... ’s higher education admissions arena and the lengths to which American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  there is the general firehose that is MIT. When the professor throws ten ... bar area and cry a little inside when I see that yet again, there’s only ... sleep and dares anybody who walks by to have a staring contest with him

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word ... proven here) and a good luck wish to all the prefrosh in the midst of ... this new vocab, and the answer is quite simple. This is #scretious: (MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  ... and only made it to the aftermath. But considering that I was only 10 ... as a perfunctory check than anything else, and low and behold, there actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers ... objects and the ones that make it into our eyes are the ones that comprise

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  walked to his office flashed through my brain. "My dad is there." A third ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science ... stability this year and I hope to focus on that more. Maintain a 4.5/5.0 GPA ... museums! I went to New York this past April and visited the Intrepid Museum

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022