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• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different ... of the options I'm pondering). I did like being on crew, but there ... , of course. I think most of the other varsity sports require a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  but haven't had the chance yet--I've heard some of his later piano ... awesome. The music program at MIT is actually quite strong, and one of the ... high school, I had the pleasure of singing under Dr. William Cutter in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... design is based on the iconic cable cars of San Francisco, which I grew up

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  something due every day of the week. Monday: 18.310 test corrections were due. 18.310 is Principles of Applied Mathematics, the discrete version (18 ... wondering. Wednesday: The weekly 18.310 problem set was due. It had a lot of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number ... Mitra. So did Mike Short. Apparently, pretty much every one of the several ... an interviewer say "1024!" and if the applicant says "power of 2!" they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  me, some of the people I care about, and this past year.   Figure 1: My desk and some of the trinkets on it. When I started college most of ... Max made me when he was tiny. Most of the colors have rubbed off. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks ... honestly welcomed the onslaught of final projects and exams since it made me feel like I was nearing the end of my coursework and deserving of feeling

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  all the fun things that you sort of forget about when you're taking ... the airport to the heart of the city, and the Heathrow Express sure ... the Natural History Museum of London. Sunday: My liberal arts side

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the ... Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  affected by one of the hurricanes or by the earthquake in south Asia, I wish ... list of activities but an explanation to the activities listed on the ... leaves me with English I, II, and IV at the end of my junior year (For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  halfway into IAP, I wrote Sam with the intention of stealing his infinite ... share of the 114,000 known PC viruses over the years, none of which are an ... 's just the better choice. (Yeah, Apple's really not paying me for any of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly ... . A lot of color adjustment makes for crappy close-ups, and the white

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele work quietly. There are books along the walls, most of them higher than ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  chapter of the python natural language processing textbook. then i hung out ... 's reflection on John Perry Barlow's 1996 Declaration of the Independence of ... impossible. Although this is a failure of the recommender system, non

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015