Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... , I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we ... of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... . Dupont Gymnastics Room Today, I went to get a drop form signed and fell

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had ... group!"]pika[/annotation] kitchen counter and was sipping it while listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  : I said "BRB, homework", and it took a week. That's not unusual, for ... been very comfortable behind the wheel, and I relax most when I'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  Yesterday, I briefly deserted my physics and orgo psets and headed ... : the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  Great meetings this week in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette ... meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting that had us grabbing for and setting up extra seats to accommodate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  and they replied “probably non-stem people”. and the moment they said ... day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously ... and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a ... just intrinsically awful at jazz, and this will get easier as we gain

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  northeast! Through a collaboration with Boston University's dance team, Dheem ... Hopkins, and UMaryland; it felt nice to meet others who cared as much about ... activity that compresses all of my pent-up frustration and energy and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  'umba, Capoeira dancing, MIT Gospel, MIT Dance Troupe, Steel Pan, and so much more ... which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence ... Students' Union, the MIT Caribbean Club, and the MIT chapter of the National

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... 't halt for us either, and all the hosts are regular MIT undergraduate ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed all of the letters first class, and I hope nearly everyone will have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  specific and imminent goal, university admissions, on my mind. At crunch ... Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about this and helping me think about how to formulate it! I’ve been very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these ... opportunities and events, and c) illustrate the bicoastal life that I (and a lot ... 'll drive down to South Bay and conduct reconnaissance work out at Stanford; I

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

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or groups as features and you couldn't friend folks at other schools and it ... college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  about exploring [annotation note="and to some degree sonic space, we just ... something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  degrees F. Mix the sugars, vanilla, eggs, and applesauce in a big bowl until it's homogenous and goopy. It'll be pretty runny. Add the baking ... in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  and excitement. New classes, professors, deadlines, and activities…it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free ... MIT application and consequently, you may become involved with different

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007