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• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... availability of projects around campus while giving a glimpse into the labs of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... . You’ve been lied to by the [annotation note="A shocking amount of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation ... ,TOEFL IN DETAIL? IN WHICH OF THESE EXAMS I SHOULD PREFER> WHAT R THE ... and/or abilities in the realm of computer science. There are certain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  hundreds of events listed on the schedule, from formal events like the ... globe will be hosting gathering for the Class of 2012, as nearby campus as ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  the Arts), Pardis Parsa (Office of Arts Initiatives), myself, and Mei ... Media Lab building, and now the home of many MIT arts departments) and ... was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came ... difference. I talked to a couple of the Gordon Engineering Leadership (GEL ... manager, Gary, of the first company he worked for, as someone who frequently

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... . Five of the eight people in crabmeats are from southern California so we

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... three finals in a row in the exact same set of clothing. Make your own ... I could eat only one food for the rest of my life, it would probably

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... common this is except for the fact that I know of no one else who does this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  ;         A helpful hacker forwarded the text of ... also Einstein's birthday) and the imminent constitution of the rest of ... transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... felt like it or not, I was a sophomore. But of course, with the speed at ... over the semantics of whether or not the class of '24 are seniors right

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... me thinking. So I spent the better part of a month trying to figure ... a Guitar Hero guitar (that's the point of Guitar Hero), and if anyone

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  past almost all the dorms in West Campus. Stop when you are greeted by the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  Market in three weeks and the shelves of my formerly bomb ... that the lady in front of me in line was paying in cash, I decided to ... ... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020