Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  [/annotation] and also confused about how it would work logistically. Memes ensued ... , I'm not one to turn down free stuff. So, it was a no-brainer -- I ... . I was disappointed that my plan to lend my mom my iPad hadn't worked

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all the sexiest internships (and not the ones which are interesting or ... : Mary Chin earned her BS in civil engineering and a MEng in environmental

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  look like. Part of a community nonprofit, working to help energize and ... the expectation of earning a gargantuan amount of money, maintaining a stable and healthy work life balance, snagging a cool job to impress

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... someone new. Having taken sophomore standing****, I’m technically not a ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a ... really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  the world works. That is not at all to say that it isn’t a good one, but ... , though it’s not like there are any prerequisite courses to finding this ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  just using the plug not five minutes earlier. I then unplugged the laptop, took it to another room, and then came back. I’m not sure what happened during those five minutes, but not even a jiggle could resuscitate its

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness of MIT's partnership with/acceptance of money from Shell and other companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and ... interrupt my sleep (and nearly give me a heart attack - I'm not so keen on ... throwing a party. I was tempted to go back to sleep, but desire not to miss

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality ... in Victorian literature? Or in the history of Islamic architecture? Not ... recognition is largely focused on the reputation of faculties that have not only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  or do community service work study, and the money earned is more of a ... ’s been working with minority high school students visiting campus, TA ... productive week of my life”. Yet another busy, hard working friend says while

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that ... efforts by MIT Panhel to be transparent about how they're working on addressing many of the issues within their system. I hope that you, like me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Awesome Robot Competition? LIVE?? Check out the 2.007 Final Robot Competition! LIVE May 12th/13th!

  

  working tirelessly to create robots to overcome this year’s challenge board ... Monday to earn as many points as possible, and a top 32-robot single

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  (Class of 2007's Ring) The Brass Rat is MIT's class ring, which is earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... premiering the final product of 10 months of work-- the best Brass Rat MIT has

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and ... Emeritus Modigliani, earned a Nobel "for his pioneering analyses of saving

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  's last piece (not pictured here, unfortunately) was a giant mural assembled ... along. Jaekyung's second work was a performance art piece he did for a ... . Sam's work is really awesome. "Walkinghouse," which he did as part of N

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  're working on your first 18.02 pset. Okay, say you're me, and you're working on your first 18.02 pset. And by "working," I mean "staring blankly at ... and a half seconds." You've always loved math, but you're not exactly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  the composer(s) and title(s) of the recorded works submitted. You do not ... not send supplemental material unless the application did not ... music supplement via email addressed to [email protected]. For performers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  ; hopefully this post will be helpful. How does the waitlist work? We are ... fewer than 4% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those ... on the waitlist? No, because it's not ranked. We will reconsider

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013