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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  , but everyday objects take on a poetic aspect dusted in powdery white. As another friend (also from California) put it: “One minute I was walking ... of a snowstorm on Saturday. And I'm sure we'll get enough snow over the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  as you might guess it focuses on music spanning from Monteverdi (ca ... !" Professor Neff replied, fewer than ten minutes later (I mentioned that she ... French soldier audience was not amused the first time he tried to put it on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... on the Wall Street trading floor after completing several demanding ... . “It took about three minutes of standing in front of an 8th grade

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  Beginning this weekend, MIT will be going on the road with Brown ... philosophies on admissions, financial aid, and more. Each session, including Q&A, will run about 90 minutes. You can RSVP at brownmityale.org. In addition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  staying and practicing. I had an enormous crush on one of their star players ... yesterday. I watched the first 80 minutes of regulation play in my apartment ... eventually tell how each team was doing based on where I was. For instance, if

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  minutes consecutively. The bill came up for vote andpassed immediately ... person that I ever knew in high school. On Monday I'm headed for the ... Wolfgang Puck, Toni Braxton, and Prince on the American Idol finale?

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with ... happiness relied on my proximity to a university campus from which I could so

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  - I got a book on HTML from the library. I made a few HTML pages, but they were mostly text, links, and pictures. So I made an account on ... senior year - I took the 6.189 Intro to Python course on MIT Open

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  mostly only focused on adding more scenes to lay out a better foundation in ... review and good job on the review, it sure is dense. on October 23rd, i ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before, in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a ... posted something about it on her social media. It was this post which led

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... Cognitive Sciences minor, which is heavy on biology]. I was almost a physics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... you is putting the final details on a Computer Science Cake. You can ask

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  .0, where anybody can put anything on the Internet and everybody is equal ... advertise for their schools. Nice, neat, Photoshopped pamphlets arrive on your ... revolutionize the way colleges advertise. MIT is no longer a photoshopped ad, it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  is not just based on results, but includes effort and hard work. Many ... knowledge base. By focusing on LΔ we can really zero in on YOUR individual growth. The LΔ allows us to focus on the process, not just the outcome

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... working this term about 15 hours in the lab each week. I work on the weekends, on school holidays, and on national holidays. In 2004, I didn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  (fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups) have not been so keen on ... cooked by a chef/cook or by house residents, depending on the house. I ... building. These people are underestimating the power of a kitchen. On 5th

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  week, on average (the first month we read one book per week, circa 200 ... meant I knew what was going on in my Harvard classes. I plan to prioritize ... ="attachment_83880" align="alignnone" width="300"] we are at the Killers

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  vector on every vertex except the lower-left one. (If I drew it starting ... process. Draw the next vector on each vertex if it’ll be “outside”, then ... these lines on top of each other:Notice that when we read the colors of

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

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  accepting it. Here's how things played out: I woke up on Sunday morning with ... spend hours working on 8.02, 2.001, and 18.03. But, as any MIT student ... (somebody out there better pick up on this reference). Consequences to doing

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  actually lived on the same floor that I did in Next. And so began my ... managing 80 volunteers and 40 teams with almost 200 students: creating rules ... , our shirts have bowls of science on them[/caption] Last Saturday, it all

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020