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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  either (you may have two hands and two feet, I have two or three cultures ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... things I gained were not necessarily academic skills or time management

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  features the community members like or don't like. In addition, we will be ... ) We will spend the majority of our trip in the community of Mwape, which ... , so we will spend some time checking on the panels and assessing whether

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod

  

  re-sodding a Kresge of your very own.   Step 1: Get rid of all ... arbitrary white flags to indicate your surrender to the will of Sod. [caption ... ="attachment_43500" align="aligncenter" width="768"] April 5, 1:51 pm[/caption]  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  enrolled," "Just started," or "Spring semester;" it will be, in many cases ... be available on ______________________ and I will mail or fax them to ... soon as your midyear grades are available or by February 15th, whichever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  pallet of beautiful teak or mahogany, nor do I have anywhere near the skill ... , stained, and varnished the heck out of it.   [carousel image1 ... other other homework So... it's been a long time. There was a week or so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog ... things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the ... hours (I arrived at 7, but was supposed to arrive at 1) because we had a

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  whose parents have or had cancer. Oh, and we go to formals. This ... T (subway) or a taxi to get out there. I got back late because of Med ... an old entry of Ben's, or as the guy voted Most Likely to Cure Cancer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  ! Because ln e = 1 and all. This is why I called her Lynnie: Lynn: "Oh, hi ... involves freaky genetic engineering or turkey carcasses or stuff like that. I ... little too much complaining, so I will just describe it thusly: I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  , credit, or as a volunteer. I usually get paid, because, hey, I like money ... , or I won't go on the June degree list!) And so, in my last IAP, with ... the classic IAP things like attending the 6.270 or Maslab robotics

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / 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