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• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this? (All photos are credit of Jo Tong '08) That's outside MIT's Green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  at the last page of the pdf. Soon, they will be posting the pilot of ... actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... enough, I was walking down the Infinite on my way to study for one of my

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  deadline has passed, the admissions officers are spending the bulk of our time evaluating the thousands of applications we've received. This evaluation process will continue throughout the month of November. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  the tired eyes of a poor researcher?” if I continue to print at this ... I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  from this joke paper. If you stare at a given piece of Chicken code for ... Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming, but the CS department is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... on her bed sometimes, and I spend most of my time at my desk by the ... , I lived in a house at the end of a road, and the back yard dropped off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  tough at times, and I'm going to have to take a bunch of technicals next ... halfway point of MIT. When I look back at the path I've taken, it looks ... : nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  out of the summer all happy from working at Hasbro and building toys all ... walked out of the final at 4:30 PM on Wednesday and went straight back to ... was hard. We're talking miserable hard. It was a test of will, to be

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  hours later I was less optimistic. Also, I was tired of staring at the ... two of us started working very intently. At 5:47, I ran the test jig ... of IHTFP, and ILTFP (the sentiment, not the student activist group), at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... -- my urop at the broad institute is also a lot of work, something my ... from my brain, minimal editing, stream of consciousness -- just my raw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  , or failed at a wide range of ventures or ideas told their stories ... ’s campus—and gave me the idea of illustrating the support found at MIT during ... “Think. Inspire. Motivate.” There has already been some coverage of the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  the spirit of introduction, here are some Things I Know to Be True at ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  I am just full of sweetness and light today. Lab-related good news ... in charge of my lab? I do this in person all the time -- I'll be ... my postdoc that I should do a handful of further experiments, then

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... might go sit for awhile at Sean's memorial and just think. Maybe a bit of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  abstractions of human proportion and movement. At times, it was frustrating. At ... : "Architecture was one of the four original departments at MIT, and it was the ... I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014