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• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and ... professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  you have to do is reach the end and rest your legs for a while. For an ... with a series of shorter sprints in between. MIT is one of those four ... without warning. Sometimes after a long, hard semester, all you can feel is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  was born as a tradition at MIT. Yes, the ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold and features a beaver on the front. Why ... hand): Which Rat is your favorite? [updated from a previous entries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to see ya around at CPW, Laura. I wonder how much of a chance I'll have ... of other plans but am coming to CPW. Is that much of a big deal? Nope ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  to sound more authentic was definitely a big factor. How much Chinese ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel ... surprise at how much I knew. But after coming back from that 2 week trip to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... someone new. Having taken sophomore standing****, I’m technically not a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  though it is definitely not normal to cough that much. I wasn't giving ... much, but it's a start. I've capped myself at where I am. No more time ... 'm anxious I just swear and groan a lot. Caroline is just pure anxiety and

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

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  a bridge or oil well was under too much pressure before it fractured ... 've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic ... memory phenomena emerges. We want to find how simple may a system be so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  my life. because the reality is, there's not a lot of new and exciting ... ?" "oh, you know," i say. "the usual." every week is a cycle: lectures ... . i tend to end my posts with a vague statement of hope, and this one is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  appreciated until a few days ago - namely, how MIT ends up attracting some very ... I wait a million years I'm not going to have very much junk." "This ... something else is actually a different object." "Don't worry, it will get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  can aggressively remind you of how awesome a person you are, and how the ... bad? I’ll give you an analogy: MIT is, as I’m sure you know, hard. A ... uncertainty, in itself, is psychologically agonizing. Patience is a rare virtue

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  Bombergiving is a potluck event and yearly tradition of [annotation note= "we ... lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how ... dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  profile, and a letter of recommendation). MIT's recommendations process is ... competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also require
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the ... that you accept and move on with. Getting into college is a big deal, but ... around this time. I can hardly believe how much has changed in just one

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  , like how to do laundry, or how to not burn a pot of spaghetti are ... Buford about how he left his job as a writer to work under Mario Bartoli at ... wanted was to learn how to cook in a professional kitchen. Long story

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a ... , and no set program for students to follow. 42 is a physical space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  comment: “you can actually tell that people live here!” It’s funny how much ... , dorm residents would be fined if they so much as stuck a tack in the wall ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  which just passed is a result of this obscure Massachusetts holiday known ... .[/annotation] Since 9 AM on a weekend is absurdly early for most people, the first ... much faster than I need to be going at this point in the walk, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... 't necessarily understand -- I mean, really, how superficial is that? I think what

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  , such as to make a valuation on how costly traffic is (just in terms of ... This post is a culmination of many things that I’ve been thinking ... section[/annotation] is “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” (lyrics) by Mike Posner

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020