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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  !). Four winners were going to be picked overall, with one undergrad and one grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win $500, and four finalists were going to win $100. The objective was to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  this job, do it regularly, and do it well. Biography City, State ... upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a ... decade, both within and without our office, from an heritage monoculture of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... handle him or not. A worldly man, he has been everywhere and is from ... and watching kung fu." Points if you can guess the movie allusion

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  colleges but by reference-letter shopping instead and using more flattering ... students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the method to this blog (since deleted) and other sites. Others have posted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  (MOOC) provider, created by MIT and Harvard and used by over 70 educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational technology in its classrooms.  Professors and students alike are engaged

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky ... University. The discussion was insightful, reflective, blunt, and optimistic ... Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers—and ... rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  diverge at 30 degree angles) and we're working our way to sketching more ... about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A ... derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... September - November, and then grad school applications from November - now ...   Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  are airports, and the edges are flights between them. i made a vague ... trackpad). i like to have chrome and the terminal on one split screen, and ... four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  meet, and infinite resources to discover. Everything seemed possible and ... , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had expected to hear the city buzz and face giant skyscrapers, but instead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  colleges and universities, the high-priced independent counselors, the test ... of 42.6 degrees for said aardvark, where is the banana and why is that ... at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ... how classes and activities are going. Some of our most recent artistic

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  off short buildings.  Grumkins who haunt the hallways and who never see ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle ... having just finished registering for classes. He is ready to go and succeed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008