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• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science ... equal representation of women in science. When I casually mention to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the ... we do send notes on your behalf to the admissions team so they know a

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  to help "chronically messy" individuals around the work survive their ... . You are not the tidy person you once were. Little piles are starting to emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  policies are subject to change for each entering class. Please refer to this page for up-to-date information on AP and transfer credit.] Remember ... cried like you didn't see THAT one coming), but it's still nice to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'll ever attend. I am trying really hard to scrounge up some sad, much as I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  Continuing on the thread began yesterday... With 10 days to go until ... as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... intended major. I was reaching for the top -- what better place to study ... , home to some interesting and important transportation research. Visions

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  didn't get back to campus until quarter til 11. I mean, come on. Anyway ... '08 and I decided to literally run circles around the dorm. The title of ... his suite: Ruth says update your blog!" And when Ruth tells you to do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  inconvenient with everything else that I had to do. -9.29 (Intro to ... writing Matlab code. I was sitting next to my friend Dennis '08, who was ... lot more other stuff that I had to do this time. -6.004 (Computation

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... construction, as you can tell. Turning back around to leave, I spotted this ... 're familiar, thanks to a previous entry. Along the way, I thought I'd show you a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a pedestrian! I’m a motorist! Pedestrian! Motorist! Read on, my children, and you shall see of our midnight ride to IHOP.

  

  To begin: "If it weren't for my horse, I never would have spent that year in college." --New England proverb A prize goes to the first person to identify the source of this wisdom. Ruth, you're not allowed to play

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first ... celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  may have some questions, so we’ve assembled some answers to FAQs. Many ... you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don’t know how to name; that

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  that are half-written and I need to work on/post soon. These young ... MIT. Today we had a barbecue (the WMBRBQ) in the lawn next to Walker, and I signed up to be a photographer! These photos will also go on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  between points and lines that Andi alluded to in his post on duality (though ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ... $\pi_x(A)$ and $\pi_y(A)$ respectively. If it helps you to see it written

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020