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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  considered a success, feeding 15 students in total for less than 0.1% of the ... warm homemade dinners. A late-evening meal at Random Hall tonight was prepared by a group of residents on Pecker floor and generously shared

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... ’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Business As Usual

  

  of classes, work, and free time. We got a four-day weekend for Columbus ... the Media Lab), and the other is building a tricycle thing (allowing for different levels of recline) for a Mechanical Engineering class. This is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 18, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... academic preparation for MIT. If there is an extenuating circumstance that
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  head for home. And here's a question...what is wrong with this picture ... make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... did not travel to Agawam for this reason. Instead, I went to an old man

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  for landing in chummy situations with a wide variety of living groups. A ... change up your living situation, even if you just do it for a summer, and ... the other fifteen hours completely free for fun and (gasp) sleep is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... spread them into a sheet on a baking pan. Cook this for a few hours at low ... hot sesame oil for a twist) and add some sliced bananas before drying

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... -altitude long-endurance plane that can fly for five days at a time. 21A.819 ... classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  comfy chair and a computer, what more could an eleven year old kid ask for ... my school for the position of "Graphic Technician", fancy speak for a ... a cubicle, doing what I love.   Tune in next Monday for the epic

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  . Then we were jumping around and screaming for a solid five minutes. I ... went broke for a good while after that[/caption] Moral of the story ... When I was once a high school senior drowning in college applications

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Liebe Deutschland! A video entry - because I was too lazy to type

  

  (Sorry for the abrupt ending! I accidentally pushed the button to stop recording a few seconds before I was actually done speaking, haha)

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another fun problem Skip if you don't want to do more physics.

  

  If you liked last night's dynamics problem, here's a new and exciting one for you!

  • by Snively '11
  • October 21, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you ... available once Finalists are announced. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  for such a public forum as the blogs. Craft Lessons from the ... looking for. He said, “Anything that a magazine which has the word ‘review ... best place for me is a jack of all trades, dabbling in meche and in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6 ... being taught the same way for over 18 semesters there are a ton of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  calculus as a prerequisite for acceptance? This isn't possible for me, as my ... replacement for the college level classes MIT expects out of a potential student ... knowing Calculus. Sure, the social atmosphere may be a good fit for you (who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  a never-ending desire for popularity or complete apathy toward what ... for the show I had to wear stilettos and a backless slinky gown and sing ... oh, for some time to myself! Haha, that sounds a lot like something I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... this point) and get a jump start on some of my coursework for next ... Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... Hampshire! Dismantled a hair dryer, for lab credit. Perks of being a ... ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017