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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  belongs here, then you obviously don’t know what MIT is about. (And for the ... answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black-and ... dominating College Confidential and the blog comments makes me sad. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Instruments Company and diagonally across from the "old dormitories," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for ... built onto its north and south walls, and a matching parallel would be

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jack of all trades master of none...

  

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 24, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the ... with units is great, but what I really enjoyed, and still enjoy, is ... I linked to above, seriously, it's short and important) prompted a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  available at MIT World. EDIT: Friedman closes his talk: "Go out and export ... Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and ... writing director, Les Perelman, was troubled by the correlation between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  Ori and the Will of the Wisps to evaluate. CMS.616 For CMS.616, we ... to nature and a longing for it. Chang, A. Y. (2019). Playing nature ... , experimental enclosures halfway between unbounded nature and a lab setup. She

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... up diagrams and export drawings from my 3D model - which I spent all ... program could not flatten and export into Adobe Illustrator as drawings

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... cable for said microphone, and whatever other props you may need ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiMDCooADF4 14. Freeze your body and numb your fingers while you try for an

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  same goes for the transitions between 8.012 and 8.01, 5.112 and 5 ... . They also rate their professors and TAs. This tool is helpful for picking ... . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... with that logic. Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your own shirt and convince you that he’s going

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  -born Ethiopians like me, and some are sort of in-between, who have spent time in ... Ethiopia hung on for twenty, and even now, the major tenets of the system are ... will be interesting for prospective students in general, and also because

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  Blender for everyone because it's 100% free and can really help you create ... between each letter for the modern fonts would end up being exposed since we ... issues, I then exported the words as SVG vector files and passed them along

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  , switch between tabs using ctrl+tab and close the tab you're on using ctrl ... Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... images, and make files to laser cut. Setting up your document The first

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... are something between 20 and 30 emails specifically addressed to me ... , which Gmail filters out for me. Most of them aren’t actionable and I punt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  not need to rely on a desktop for hefty exports and renders. Once the ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  -tooling for 10.37: Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design and I cracked open this ... synthesizing, canning, and exporting H. Scott Fogler's seafood gumbo? Mens et ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017