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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  is out pounding the pavement in search of a job. Book #3: Ender's Game ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A ... writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a ... beach in Vík. That night, at the hotel, we sat in a geothermal hot tub

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  the airport and time to head back home. I haven't been back in a year ... exhibitions, and the fact that a 6-hour flight is 6 hours too long (and ... Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  anyone who has any connection with MIT and want to stay in touch with other ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just ... and I got to talk to some people who I haven't seen for more than a

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... a blog is, and 2) how blogs can be used to demystify the admissions ... based on feedback, this is happening! If you attended our presentation and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  a policy and of thousands of human beings. Repeal is not, however, a ... , aim high, and earn a degree or a place in college or the military, on ... assure you that MIT is stepping up for our DACA students." In it, she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?

  MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  students who aren't yet freshmen. A pretty logical moniker: "frosh" is short ... . Simply put, an Octagon is a concrete mass used in capacities of construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  [/annotation], which is a full-semester version of 6.0001. However, I stayed in 6 ... -points. Thus, 6.0001 felt a little sterile at times. 6.0001 is in 26-100, which ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... cannot do so, because the context in which his works were formed is gone ... "Shake-shifting," a collaboration in which both artists and the Bard give

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this one, under similar circumstances. There are a few key differences

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  . Also it's back in Los Angeles in a dumpster somewhere. The new toilet is ... was basically my money—my mom actually chipped in a bit. The first year ... wanted to expand the idea and manufacture a bunch of calendars to sell. Is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  have a flowchart on my Degrees in Biology PDF!) The way this works out is ... regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... people who take it in the fall), and those people are overwhelmingly people

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  who asked me about life at MIT, Life & Culture is a great tag. And ... , according to my Writing Advisor, “thus” is a very math major word and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  live in Senior Haus. I have found a community of people who are so ... Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  brownies featured on Oprah were a disaster in my hands. But, if there is one ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... instead, here are some links to a variety of brownie recipes, in case this

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... interviews were waived) is about three times the admit rate for those who didn

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .111 - Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory this is a project-based class about ... - Qualitative Research Methods this is a graduate class in MIT's incredible ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  guess, what I mean is, when I see other people in classes who have seen ... everything that matters is in a blind spot and you compare just the shallow ... , shrivels quietly in a blind spot. There is some unsaid expectation when it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022