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• 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

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  that blogging is therapeutic and thus would lead to a similar outcome of ... so I've omitted it). Master of what? Doesn't matter, as long as said ... life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by a sense of resignation. Common wisdom around MIT says that freshmen

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... ! Please be aware that some of these links are from tumblr and other such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... say I was excited would be an understatement. Taking advantage of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together, I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... : taking all of their GIRs second semester senior year because they didn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode. Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Representation of Yan ran into The Virtual Representation of Katelyn '12, who, incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway ... the unquestionable truths of Facebook status update. This was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey ... prospective students why MIT is amazing, or (d) all of the above - I ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... curiosity. Below are some Highlights of my October, occasionally enhanced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... selection, visual thinking and communication, kinematics of mechanisms ... at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  . Sam offered to dispose of him for me. Hmm, urinal or toilet ... fish "Ian Brelinsky" in honor of Ian '06. I guess I have led a very

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• 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 / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  degree but most likely can't. The past couple of days have been a series ... I flew back home on the eighteenth with hopes of having a productive ... slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • September 5, 2014