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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  / Ice Dagger combination for the rest of the game. 2. Coding in MATLAB ... in the sink at all, ever, for any reason (or in any other constantly ... 'll rust. Your kid will wrinkle up if left in the bathtub for a couple hours

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  performing in a group recital in the spring. As an Emerson Fellow, your lessons are paid for in full. The requirements are: taking Advanced Music ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and ... been given an actual office in CAVS where we host "office hours" (open ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... room on that fateful day," quoth Rich, holding Baxter protectively in his ... losing your best friend, someone who's always there for you. A part of me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... -based course led by Professor David Wallace. 2.009 is required for seniors in Mechanical Engineering, and it is, in the words of Professor Flowers, an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his ... Washington, D.C., in June for a presentation that might include meeting the president; and those most impressed by his summer job -- as an intern for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  ??!?!?" Yes! Frosh can live in cook for yourself dorms right away, you aren ... to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no ... for when I do make good things. Independent Living Groups In addition to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time ... code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is ... would be doing this kind of stuff in college, she would be excited and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official transcript. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... be willing pay for such an event? A quick check on ticketmaster shows ... tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  Cambridge, but I'd have to search for housing in San Francisco. Also, I knew ... wrong in a house! Studying: I need to get credit for 18.03, Differential ... for the Advanced Standing Exam (ASE) in September. The 18.03 ASE comes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  minds less often than we think. Last semester I applied for an NSF ... average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... , Harvard, Columbia, UChicago, and UC Berkeley, and I'd looked up the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unfold I met my blog muse while doing the laundry, and then came this entry.

  

  in 3 flat to find something to wear for school. Exhibit A: This person must be an MIT student. Exhibit B: He's a member of the Greek ... 've acquired a number of t-shirts in some shape related to MIT. I then realized

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged ... food for me all summer, teaching me all I know about cooking in the ... ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  !" setup for this year in my new basement! If you're an adMIT, bring ... am employed this year, in an industry that wasn't absolutely devastated ... 's brand new and we love it! We've been in it for about three weeks. There

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... : designing and building prototypes for an enormous space telescope. Why was this project important? In 1968, an Apollo 8 astronaut took a photo that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... warm in an antarctic environment is to huddle together in concentric

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  that I like Matt better than him, because I'm usually looking for Matt ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006