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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... he or she can in the positive direction, the value your program will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log ... . In Python, whitespace matters. In Java, just be sure you have brackets ... coding and then give you some resources so you can too.\n") def history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  -ness; no superficial, external failure or conflict can faze you. But keep in ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  the ballot box’ since I can’t vote. Even in conversations, I catch ... from my relatively privileged position, being black in America sucks. You ... a people. In my opinion, by being silent, you are enabling the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  “PUSH IT PUSH IT.” Immediately, we both just grinned, because how can you ... class. Other times, you can slow down, and take the time to stretch you ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  sense of immediacy and a let's-do-it-because-we-can attitude that you ... well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... , just in case you forgot the structure of an amino acid or the definition

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  ? Star Market -- if you can't grocery shop with this person, you probably ... the house more Black Ink in Beacon Hill -- where we found greeting card ... they back together? and if so, WHY??? TechTV video (Of course, you can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  Roman mosaics ever. At the MFA, they have the original mosaics and you can ... use of lots of very cool machines (as you can imagine, the mosaics ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... time you make progress in solving it. Dawn of a New Era: Kai has a real gift for elegant puzzle mechanics. You’ll learn a lot in the course of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... legendary (how many classes have YOU been in where students gave standing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  note="If you look hard enough on the Internet, you can actually find my essays online. You don't actually have to look that hard, they ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  the Hobby Shop. If you have an idea, you can build it, and someone will ... projects, the Hobby Shop holds classes during the semester that you can take ... their own 8x10. You can follow my progress at I Build a Camera (I’m

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  . Decisions will not be available online. If you don't receive your letter in ... have overcome challenges in their life. If this isn't you, don't worry ... amazed by this guy? Can I at least get his name from you?" Diana, I can do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  you feel about living in the same living group as someone who identifies ... Con, the IFC, Panhel, and the LGC. The actual Guide itself can be found in print in the Rainbow Lounge (50-005) as well as online. The data were

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  allow you to pursue interesting research in an essentially independent manner. Furthermore, you don't have to beat down doors in order to get a ... state school environment. Sure, you can find a group of equally smart

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... , which were piloted in Next House, will also be implemented in the new ... torn down forever, and there's a good chance that most of its culture can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  show how you're doing in real-time. [...] Pentland has analysed nearly 60 ... research, as they are joined by the Online Dating Research Center. If you ... There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  , Friday CPW Registration Help Desk, 1-3pm, Friday "Voting" for Daniel in the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... 12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007