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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... kitch, lots of skits and picture drawing for my taste, I have learned an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  with four potential PhD advisors... and eating a lot of free food (and ... of my life (aka lab), things are going spectacularly. I developed a couple of really pretty Western blots, and my postdoc thinks we'll be ready

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through this thread doesn’t make me think of SAT scores or grades. It makes me think of the guy who fell in love with trains as a kid and

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual the end result of this is that i now have far too many haikus Also i ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  To the class of 2016 - My name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010 ... food that has fallen on the floor. I am probably the age of some of your ... represent my decade of twenty-somethings (my least favorite phrase after "meat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  When you last heard from me, I had just arrived at The Middle Of ... the most. Each of us is paired up with a Teach For America teacher; my ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... equilibria, I guess? For those unfamiliar with the concept of dynamic ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  As a recent college admit, you’re about to make a lot of big decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you ... your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  . I have these kinds of conversations all the time, every day. But these ... walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... small, compared to the identities of the people around me, once I try to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  little knowledge of what I'm doing. Mostly going off instinct, referencing ... strip every couple of posts, if I think of a joke or something.

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  came across a collection of things that I had written which can most accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or ... ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too ... beginning of this summer -- and he's been told by one of the professors in the Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  Some of you have to make a decision to come here (or not) by 23 ... the seven of eight floors that have colorful ceilings, separated by ... of person who might love it. Life moves fast here: there are many more

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013