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• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  in the morning for job #1, due technically at the end of the workday ... , precisely the things they've always been good at, precisely the stuff of their ... darn proud of that. Maybe some people just want to be good at everything

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  of the friends I made at work were MIT alums, class of 2014 or 2015 ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... Engineering), probably the most stressful semester of my life. I was lucky

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  receiver on it.  It's not pretty, but it drives. At the end of lab, my ... seemed impossible for me at the beginning of the semester, but thanks to ... robot at the top of this page: Note the extensive use of standoffs and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  rate of 12.3%, or fewer than one of every eight applicants. We offered ... , and will be online at https://decisions.mit.edu shortly. As Ben has ... , when the decisions come out, I know you will feel a range of emotions. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  , horizontal, or at 45 degrees. The toolbar at the top will let you choose the ... select them, so use the Selection Tool (black cursor at the top of the left ... ("stroke color"), double click the large black square at the bottom of the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  Augmented Reality on top of traditional 2D animation. The AR chair at the time ... there will be a new animation course offered next year at MIT through the ... Program to Chroma to Rune, that we have pursued and practiced visual arts at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  students traditionally receive Brass Rats in the spring of sophomore year at ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... , which was held last weekend at the Boston Park Plaza. Table of Contents

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... -maintained ramp. At the bottom of the ramp, I put some items into the car, and then ... , faster, after, behind. Prepositions: at, in, of, by, outside, underneath

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  -dong’s film Burning, there is a concept of a “Little Hunger” and a “Great Hunger ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... at one of the Harvard libraries (and apparently they’re available to a ... ’s impossible to discount the fact that the culture of the place you’re at can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  In honor of the release of the Nintendo Wii the Great Dome found ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The ... Triforce was created by three Goddesses to serve as a symbol of their sacred

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . The biggest tree on the Courtyard at the end of the infinite. These ... , unable to force myself out of bed to eat, staring at the ceiling for hours instead of sleeping. During my first semester at MIT, I slept 4 hours a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are ... to do thus far at MIT. 35) Drank lots of Boba (i'm scared to check

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  Counterclocks? We jumped at the offer, even though it would cost dearly in our own ... "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of ... princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  offers a lot of choices, and navigating those choices is much easier if you ... important, and at the end of the survey indicate that Cultural Affinity is ... While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  -Zealand-gap-year experiences instead of sophomore-year-at-MIT experiences. There is no such thing ... most of all, we want it beautiful. VC-talk is speckled with grandiose ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006