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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it ... graduated. At graduation, one of the traditions at MIT is for all the ... world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  , which offers us a marvelous vintage tour of the Institute, was produced by ... Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... Band composed by Andrew Kazdin. Courtesy of the MIT Museum. MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  negative light in the West, and the current unit is about various elements of ... credit limit next fall.   I had a bit of a rocky start in the class ... interesting. It focuses on the politics of framing—in other words, how people

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... about math, you'll check it out. The Art of Problem Solving folks also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... boxes. Each box contains a real number, and each of the advisors must open ... confidence of an improv artist pretending to be a surgeon. Turns out, the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the ... the college campus (hello Boston!). Yet, one of the most rewarding ... that every day. Hundreds of millions of people in the developing world

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... half of the fifth floor. Only no one ever told me. So when I got an email

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... appreciate the harmonious blend of cityscapes and seascapes in the metropolitan ... thought I could split my experiences across three entries--kind of like "The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of ... relatively smoothly. A few of the ECs come onstage at the end to introduce themselves and help answer some of the questions during our Q&A session. 4

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn ... Coming" by W.B Yeats "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot ... !"]listening to input from many different parts of the Institute

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... bad day when there's the faithful five ounce bag of honey barbeque

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just ... , do you think you will be able to complete the core sequence of 2 ... next 4 years? If the answers to all of the above is "yes!" then you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  we will welcome them to campus for the first time as members of the ... last many months helping their children survive the process of applying ... us in the Admissions Office has a particular group of programs that we

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... ice cream flavours.  If you ever meet me, one of the first things you ... , 9/12 is september twelfth and not the ninth of december).  Apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... community and beyond. All the sororities are part of MIT Panhel, which is our ... out the waters of sorority life? Come tonight to the first round of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... attempt to grasp harder leads to doubts of whether the memory had been real ... finding authenticity – the feeling of being in a completely different world

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  from run-of-the-mill public schools, people from the middle of nowhere ... all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... dynamic place full of lots of diverse people, so the admissions process

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... Machine": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow ... substantial portion of the Class of 2012 will be on campus, so it would actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008