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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  the petabox. (You can build your own in the basement, since they made ... , where you can see archival versions of your favorite web page, going back ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  – and the walls in Simmons can be undulating and curvy. The person I ... every few weeks. In my opinion as a humble cookie-eater, I can confidently ... to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you ... come to this forum where we met. We thought it would be fun, so we went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  !! Play 25MB Flash movie. Solutions later this week. I can tell you that ... Food: Ancient and Medieval Cooking, Experiencing Health Policy: A Week in ... activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... opportunity to visit the MIT Literary Society, where I met students who were

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  than potential energy because i can’t actually tell where the potential ... in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it ... considerate - you can in principle walk through busy hallways like the infinite

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  foreign languages, where the nuances in sound were unfamiliar. “When you ... associated with dyslexia can manifest itself in noteworthy talents. “Dyslexic ... class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  you checked your iPod, and you can't find your boarding pass. Ordinarily ... scared, if I could. But I'm just a ketchupless freshman in 7D getting her chair kicked by the four-year-old in 7F. What do I know?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much time we spend at home between work and exploring the city, but I can say ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  most straightforward and familiar, but I had no idea where to start ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post ... in a poster that I still have hanging in my room today

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  . You can see all final presentation slides here (...I was in group 6 ... ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... over CNNs, VAEs, and GANs in one day, and of course by the next morning I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications ... [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... assignment where I wrote the following: Dear Mr. Albert Einstein, Thank you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be ... , I think I'm in plenty good company :P) Anyways, one of my favorite ... you want to be...we talking a bus driver, a secretary, two kids in MIT...can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in ... . (That part's the gravy!) MIT is a hard place - I can say that with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual ... , and standardized tests. Can we rely solely on these tools? I say no ... One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  -vacation (which is where I've been hiding). So I've got CD's now; stop by 3-107 if ... studies was one of my two majors in college. I probably know more about ... who preach about the environment in an elitist or antagonistic manner. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... does harken back to my science bowl days where I memorized so much random ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  matter where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can. I hope you will.   ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024