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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT Admissions blogger is its Editor-in-Chief? [answer at the end of the entry ... . Boiko: Last year, a senior in one of our courses came up at the end of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns, and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Let's continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013... Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  Necessity is the mother of invention. So I was making meatballs ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... . Since I make the meatcubes in batches of six, the first cube was browned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... attended in the Bay Area of California in the spring after I was admitted to ... MIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the intention of this article. Instead, hopefully, I can be the umpteenth person ... to study. MIT had always kind of been that school for me but since I

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  of the week. Often the elevators are where I find out about cool talks ... giving the talk. Except, of course, for the many posters I see advertising upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  30 days, which comes with various, non-specific benefits, and lot of ... kind of avatar defines me as a person?” Who cares? Spring semester was, in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the ... did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  a bunch of people I don’t know* Instructor: “Ok, each team should ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... the first day of GEL. The Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write about my experiences here as a guest author. First off, some perks of life

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not ... our heads of house and they joined us for dinner with their entire

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q ... really did embody the spirit of this year's theme. A super quirky band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college ... weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really ... people together to floor pi: pizens, students who are friends of the floor

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... living before, but things are quite different though. Speaking of two weeks ... chemical engineering professor in hopes of resurrecting the audio

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020