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• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... vines. It was designed in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted, whose ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  . Designing Media is a collection of interviews with media pioneers, probing ... A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... the Eastern edge of the campus) hosts a legendary Loading Dock Sale

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... -efficient cars, as well as a look at MIT's Friday-after-Thanksgiving tradition of a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census ... [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... discovery and invention. And despite the Times' criticism of high school ... On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  know many of you have been anxiously awaiting news about our wait list ... unprecedented, record-breaking percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll ... on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one ... had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can reassure you that MIT does have humanities classes, and a lot of them are

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... challenge of growing as a person, but I’ve since learned that it’s a false

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  , no less - also had a discussion with me. One of them even offered me a ... Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?

  

  Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read comic books? Batman was by far my favorite superhero. Poll of the day: 1. Who was yours? 2. What is the ultimate super power? My responses

  • by Bryan
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  some context: web.lab / 6.148 is a web development course offered ... ; you can find our site here spend dozens of hours reading through code ... . identify every instance of outdated code and rewrite everything in terms of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  process Edit a bunch of Nance's stuff Entertain Nance Design an online ... audience, all of us mentally picturing images of cute, fuzzy baby birds. So I ... visualization, oscilloscope showing the waveform of the music, and surveillance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  , having received his undergrad degree in '98, and is one of the most famed ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity on 5th East. We were soon joined by Lex '00. One of my favorite things

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  job of designing and constructing a 4 by 8 foot pit, too! Someone ... important things to know when designing a ballpit.) With the help of some ... -the-moment, design-as-you-build ballpit was out of luck. Finally, after about half an

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  junior year of high school, a class I barely retained anything in, and my ... 6.009 - Fundamentals of Programming 8.02 - Physics II (E&M) CMS ... 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science For all of IAP, I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  ="for those of you with Celsius mind- that’s about -1 degrees, so freezing"]30 degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... countless films of [annotation note="as short as 2 minutes or as long as 2

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019