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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including: Class of 2011 Guestbook. Sign in, learn about your classmates, post a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  table in the basement, but I interpreted it as a boat, which is what my ... table were Walt Whitman. The point is, I was on a boat. After docking ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... opted for a dataset + viz. The semester prior (Fall 2021), I had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams ... going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  Williams College. Long before I became politically conscious, he told me a ... couldn’t locate Tibet on a map. It seems comical, even absurd, that people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  up a global warming research center in Antarctica.” “Why ... established himself as a techie par excellence. His 6.170 team won the award for the best Gizmoball game in Fall 2005, he completed a competitive

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  cheerleader, I a member of a group that is shockingly underrepresented in ... , I think, is what you really want in an undergrad school -- a place ... for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery 2021 meet me halfway

  

  ."]brass rat[/annotation] but also the halfway point of MIT. Obviously, as a result of the pandemic, we weren't able to have a ring delivery in the spring. But because our [annotation note="Ring committee - a group of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  Forbes "Boost Your Business" Competition. Their concept is actually a ... " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our motto. Sport Death! Here's a view of another room, this time a double

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  AIDS, there is a lot of joy. And life without joy is pointless." It ... about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of ... freshman dinner... We had to cook for about 30 people, so we started with a ... mixed, it was time to bake it. Hence the name "baked ziti." I grabbed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so the barstools never got made. In fact, the lumber is still stacked in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class eventually and I can't decide!" So, here's a post with my course history. It's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  as a perfunctory check than anything else, and low and behold, there actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... Weiss Lab and Glenn Lab. She is a sister of the Sigma Kappa sorority and has a blue belt in Tae Kwon Do. Jeffrey is also a sophomore, majoring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N ... , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... in the office at 8:30. I AM A MACHINE. For some background on me

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005