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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... later, words poured out onto the screen. My brain exploded for a moment ... hurtling into the room. A month later, I was in the United States for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... the same lecture, but if I sit in office hours for enough time, it ... for the class. The best part is I have the opportunity to take him out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  rejected?" What we look for above all else is the match with MIT's mission ... Daniel wrote, "Any idea what date the application for '07 will come ... registered for MyMIT and live in the US, you should receive your application by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open ... enough sugar, leave it for another day. If it is the right sweetness but

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  . A few minutes later, ten fingers intact, it was time for the darkroom ... , although by the end of it my arms were thankful for the digital photography ... alum! Here is the (in?)famous rfong, looking very nonplussed by these

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  for the sake of complexity or theoretical significance simply doesn’t interest me. for instance, in the case of my ohms arrangement (1:02:00 here ... time spent : points earned ratio is at least 5x higher for the project

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  . Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the ... Mitra and put up a really simple temporary design for the time being. So I ... entry for you other clueless '09ers. Right. So, just a note- the rest of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... takers, and, mostly (or so I hope), study for the next exam. It’s all kind ... ’s door, the room cleaning, the napping…. I could take it all for granted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for ... pretty much nonexistent for a few years until the current president, Linda ... putting together the event for us. Most of them came in from London, which

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... BeaconStreet, all of which are organizations I've volunteered for in the past before I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  to help prepare everything for the [annotation note="underclassmen have ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... know? I suggested asking for a photo with the pilot. Hailey mentioned a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  Brian and I set out for the front steps of MIT on Wednesday evening, and ... Lamsweerde's "The Forest" series, from 1995. (Take a look at the other images from "The Forest.") Forty years separate these images, but we looked at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  , so applying to internships or looking for summer UROPs just wasn ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to ... sophomore year, part of our MIT atmosphere included a rush to look for summer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me ... had and making it their own. They will announce what the final look will

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... weeks of the term. Like an F grade, an O grade carries no credit for the ... - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  the pre-frosh I called were from the Midwest, since I asked for people ... the talking for me. Because no telethon is complete without me taking ... bigger! Group shot! Snively, Tina '11, Matt, and Jon '11 pose for the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  Center and the day of Michael Jackson's death. For both of those days, I ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... take a break from the weird food analogy for now. (Sidenote: if by now

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  recitation instructor, was going over the equation for total demand (of goods ... for yourself. 21A.453 - Anthropology of the Middle East professor ... , whose digestive acids eat away at the paint to make the dolls look

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  .) During the evaluation process, we are looking for students who are the best ... obvious love for math or science), will the admissions staff get suspicious ... McArthur. What's good? I have registered for the November 7th SAT and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009