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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... ’s beauty in the slope of a curve and the grandeur of Paris. However, it

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  information about student mental health by the beginning of next semester, which I plan on presenting in the form of a Tech Article, a Powerpoint ... were great. The Chancellor and President of MIT showed up for the first

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... moments. And there's a really cool map someboy painted of the fictional ... audience of like-minded housemates. Photo credits to Harini Suresh, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  I’ve just taken the luxury of lavishing two full days on an essay ... aware of the world. Ancient Greece is the fodder for many a modern narrative, so it was really interesting to learn not only about the modes of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read ... . a virgin door closeup on the flair featuring two years worth of door ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the student profiles, I realized that THREE of the young people featured are

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the ... harness out of elastic bands and O rings:  Making the harness required ... length of a forearm and the height of two mugs.”  Tulle was kind of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... screenshot of class notes; it describes the concept of interval partitioning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  .007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and ... friend, Mark Cote, won the competition and he and a few of the other top ... ...antastically pass (IHTFP)" Basically, the table this year has a set of bins of

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... the time of our first rejection from one of those 3, we decided last

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  zookeeper described as being the size of a stick of butter. Like a number of ... , delighting a contingent of residents who'd spent the past year campaigning for ... Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... √©mon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to ... last thing you’d probably expect to find while roaming the halls of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  array (a mapping from keys to values).” One of the functions that we had ... all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... ”, 2)] After we submitted the lab, we thought about the power of this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  -100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... that have long divided the world, being the source of almost every battle, economic downturn, and cataclysmic natural event (including the extinction of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... -game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... involved "wits, skill, and the teensiest amount of luck," to quote the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Director of the Humans and Automation Lab, which hosts many Aero/Astro UROPs ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  on some kind of maturation pedestal - and it is worthy of the hype I ... unjaded by the responsibilities and consequences of adult life. As much as ... the top of my list. Expectations of parents. What a struggle. Given MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011