Search

Search Results

• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  posting tutorials on YouTube. Three years later Sal left his job as a hedge fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Splash?

  For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers ... analysis, Splash offerings span a wide variety of areas. Want to take a class ... during Splash, you can get your feet wet with a short introduction to any
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to ... Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a ... ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/30.12.2024_14.16.29_REC.mp4"][/video] Have a day everyone!

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... school kid for his lunch money. Well, I couldn't stand for that, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  least in Yunnan), so everyone buckles up for a minute and then unbuckles ... attract plenty of people out for a stroll, but they tend to be dominated by ... subdivision made of ice. Getting there was a bit of a pain for me. Chinese train

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  graduating from MIT. Think about it for a sec….. It makes sense just don ... Conner as a whole. However, if that is what you are looking for check out ... be pledging with you is a key component. I could ramble on for eons

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  plant, a pepper plant, and an english ivy for company a Cricut, sans mat ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... for a meal was more like a minefield, where I regularly misstepped and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  of the inside of a dome for you. See? Ugly, and it doesn't even look ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to ... into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . While you're waiting for your admissions decision, go make a snowman and ... construction and event planning. It is used for such things as the base of a sign ... upstairs for a quick tour of his computing den, we headed back to Tetazoo

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  into a lock for refugee camp latrines 14) Did a lot of organic ... . And that gives me a lot of hope for whatever is to come after. It may ... With a little less than an hour to go to 2020, I'm feeling some kind

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  group decision. Don't settle for a satisfactory living group when you ... . REX is a very good thing for people like Keri, who for a brief moment in ... didn't actually apply for RBA, so it didn't make a lot of sense that I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  theme for the current issue and puts out a call for students to submit ... an overzealous freshman, so I pitched a spread idea for Issue 7 last ... desire to meet cool new people in a virtual semester, led me to apply for a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few ... Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way ... adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... Hall Team;" also, a likely description of our progress this weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  motivation for my project was to test if we could quickly prototype an API (a ... strawberries in a bowl, then bake at 365 degrees for 20 minutes." (Baking ... 5: Running the bot! Finally, I wrote a Node.js file for the bot. Then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , during the encore. my heart was so full made a cake for Bombergiving ... ; filmed a dance video with a friend  i desperately longed for people to ... that i was able to help make it special for them :) watched a movie

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... ’t worry! You can read the updates for Early Action at this blog entry

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013