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• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  : Chaotic How many have you seen? It's a spectacular night here in Boston ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a computer lab on campus"). I particularly love the warning "this is not a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... push a little further in finding your next home. Just don’t be ... applicants is an absurd and nearly impossible task in itself. But that’s why we

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  do. There's a lot of angst in the UA about how we can get more people ... renegotiated every year. A new undergrad dorm is being planned in Ashdown ... things are not as they should be in the UA. I've thought a lot about this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs ... —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... revelations from the best minds in neurology in the world, like a story about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... blurring effects, while Poisson image editing is a method of automatically

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  your applications, I know how much energy and care you put into them. For ... displayed in a museum, nor led a group of students through a rainy trek up ... applications, I was also reminded of how different things are today. Not so much

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... taking so long meant that i was a bad person. i wondered how my friends ... comfortable writing this post my current view is that there is a lot of work to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  role as a socializing institution. College is a place where you meet all ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  personalities in a way that feels natural, and much about those characters is ... Boys in comics class a few weeks ago, we focused mainly on how Faith Erin ... comics. Can you imagine how much time that would take?) As far as I know

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just ... "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  . Lodish: "Biology IS History." (he was trying to tie in how biology is a ... primary reason is that I enjoy the feeling of spontaneity in a day. I enjoy ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous ... open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 2015 I accepted a job in Fort Wayne, Indiana and left my job in Oregon ... Mac, typed in my credit card info, hit submit, and all of a sudden I had a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . as ankita talked about in the post i linked, renovation is a big deal ... like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... -renovation. so two years is a lot relative to how undergraduate culture propagates

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  detection of inefficiencies, which is important in the manufacturing process ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a minor in Energy Studies MIT-Spain Program 2011 My project was aimed

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  closing in on me. Internally, my creation is often propelled by a feeling of ... - too long without a brush in my hand had made me forget how to be feel ... There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... cream and my feet don't hurt? Hello, this is a no-brainer. Answering some ... got it at Bed Bath & Beyond. (This is actually a tradition -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to ... saw how easily preventable diseases placed a tragic burden on society ... providing free primary health care for children and prenatal women living in

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007