Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  stopping at a drugstore and buying a map of Boston. After a quick map viewing ... exciting tourist attraction of the day. Quick, just by looking at the picture ... at the top of the hill. Ok, time to listen to the blog comment and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  , at the insistence of one of Charles Schulz's friends. The friend sent ... at the Peanuts table. There are countless stories of people reading the ... is like 10 pages of blog, and I still have more to say!"]There's a lot

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  Registration week was a heinous tangle of scheduling; seven (7 ... pieces of slack time between 7 AM and 9 PM. After Thursday, my self ... this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  students: voc techs will often fix your cars at the cost of the parts, saving ... microcosm of life at MIT. Rather than being bored or struggling with a dearth ... When I give information sessions (including one today, at 2PM), I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  suffering to “prove” they are grateful for the gift of life. At least, this is ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  . But after moving into my fraternity house at the beginning of this ... smoots. At MIT campus Approaching Lobby 7 In front of Lobby 7 ... take a picture. I had just taken a snapshot of something I see every

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  nearly forgot, the little company who's in charge of this thing, CERN? Yea,at ... . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  haven't perfected the art of being in multiple places at once. (Yet ... was hanging out with a bunch of mutual friends at Theta Xi, yet another ... week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  the Cupcake Making Event for Women at MIT: Then a snapshot of the ... By Maggie Liu '12 So, first of all, let me start by saying that I ... completely blown away by the diversity of the campus life. I knew that MIT was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... problems, I could barely do any of them without first looking at the solution ... right. Last week, at a leadership training program called UPOP, one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the end of exams called May Balls. Plus the college system (similar to Yale ... experiences are quite different at both places and listening to the stories from

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those ... [/annotation] [annotation note="the cliffhanger at the end of the second season REALLY KILLED ... solid at Unity, but it was out of necessity and not necessarily because I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at ... boss. (Plus, what other admissions dean would rock out at Battle of the ... 't always been at the top of Jones' agenda. A scientist by training, she was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the ... on a range by looking at the range of values it takes, picking subsets ... I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done ... action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  Let's start off with a little riddle. What is white, at least 2500 ... was a little snippet about an event at the Enormous Room, a hip ... funded by the Berwick Institute. One of the organizers of the project is an

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005