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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... , the map on the underside, the bezel (the front or top of the ring), the ... 's supposed to represent the "infinite possibilities at MIT" or some such thing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  matter what day of the week or what time of the day, there is always some interesting or obscure talk – formal or informal – or free food event or meeting ... , which, being devoted to make-or-break exams, means students there don't do

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

   urged us to reach out to our district office, and tell the staff members how ... people going through physiological therapy, that will enable them to play ... generations of scientists - will thank you later.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  and don't have a formula or weigh any part of the application. Although ... "look good" on their resume or college application. We look for students who are willing to take risks, and who will bring something special and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing soon: much of it is technical, like strang, or sections of clrs - some are linguisticsy, like chomsky or a book on acoustic analysis i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me ... ", or "interference" - extraneous signals from the instrument, the ... to carefully subtract all those effects from their data. They noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  next two weeks! Fatima: We will write one, or two, or three, or— Alan: We will write a few sestinas each with the end words which you give us, and then we will return to the blogs, and I will figure out if it is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in ... second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in ... -- in the third post, I will show presently occupied and "lived

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  have changed their mindsets or perspectives and not entire lives. But I ... taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... of time on it though." "Personal answer is definitely 11.011 or 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  either a P - “Pass” (!) or a DN - D, but not recorded or an FN - F ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks ... turn in the final paper or project, and/or was absent during the last two

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  the neighborhood of $1,680,000, for your reference. Make sure you have a popup blocker or, better yet, Firefox before you go. Anyway, today I got ... enjoyed, despised, or wholeheartedly attempted to read this summer. Of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  at the same time, or the summer camp I was running. This year, I ... , because— eleven days ago Wednesday, September 1st, was the day of the Next ... will move to a permanent assignment that better fits them. At Next and in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  receiving the head scritches I am dying to give them. [carousel image1 ... memes. Or maybe it's because architecting solutions to software problems ... a masters and/or PhD and go into industry research. I would get to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  1. Buzz. 2. Hit snooze button. 3. Buzz Buzz. 4. Hit snooze button ... is really too early to have class; unfortunately, all semester I will ... : Design and Manufacturing 1 12:30 - 2 pm: Tissue Engineering for Analysis

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this ... 't record or remember? Hands down among my favorite works of fiction, ever ... flawless the scheme was, how impregnable the fortress or powerful the magical

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  trapezoidal configuration such that a bird or butterfly will be able to move up ... provide a few proprietary products for use (i.e. Nvidia Jetsons or ... fictional. Any resemblance or likeness to actual personified objects is purely

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  my life will never be the same.” The prospect sent me into shivers and ... excitedly about following their vocational dreams or taking a gap year on ... be (trust me, I have approximately 0-1% of my life figured out). But If

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  will have made a leap forward. [read more] About the same time, I got a ... cool. Tonight, Jiaqi (Jean) Cui '09 will appear on Jeopardy. Here's more ... will receive a phone call.  For the adult show, you usually given about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be ... . Third test? 10/30, 1.5 standard deviations below. Third test? 9.5/20, half ... say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  MIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the following: Application Part 1, Application Part 2, Secondary School ... will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007