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  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my ... blog about, so here I am. But switching website designs also means

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  're doing. 12:45pm – In which I decide to write a poem because I don’t feel ... , Right now, I think I shall sit here indefinitely. I can see the sailboats ... , And the warm glow of waning summer sun, I feel like I could sit in this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  , dance performances, and more. Shikhar asked, "Can I send in softwares ... well too). Is the recommendation process set in stone, or can I use his ... . Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  speech, but just by being in college, I'm beginning to understand it. What ... , and learn from that. I’m here to learn about other people and in the ... fundamentally changed in some way as a person. The only way this can happen is by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science ... flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... our office might visit 50 or so of them in a year. I know from talking ... cities, as I've previously discussed. Our priority in these cities is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a ... /wk. dining plan) thought it was crazy that I was considering living in a dorm

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  , mirrored last year in a paralyzing way. And maybe this is a sign that I'm too ... I was doing at the exact time it happened?" I can't say I'm happy with the answers, especially this year. I've been dabbling a lot in being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  January 5th, I was in Vegas.     Vegas was like a dream ... .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  . We swing by H-Mart along the way; Derek buys some snacks, and I get a ... it's just as pretty as ever.  Derek and I revel in the art, and then we ... across campus to Next. I consider turning in at this point, but MIT's Music

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  V-Day, I'd like to put in a plug for MIT's production of the Obie ... . I hope many of you will check out a production in your town this year ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  , very different from buildings you see elsewhere. That's more than I can ... canoeing. See, creatures really can live in the Charles. See, people at MIT ... entirely man-made. I had originally called this entry "Dirty old river, must

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  department in a nutshell[/caption] “But Andi!” I hear you cry, “How could you read sheet music off your tiny loaner iPad?” That’s where Fred comes in ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  your participation can give you a serious jump start in academics as well ... competition's website or the MIT team's website. I thought I'd jot down a ... the FSAE team members: - I had the chance to sit in this year's FSAE car

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something ... reminders. Of things I believe strongly in and hold near and dear to my heart

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  website?  mitadmissions.org is now "responsive," meaning it should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile phone, iPhone, whatever.  What do you think?  Let us know how it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  education. But in truth, I can talk to anyone. Well, mostly. Some people want to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself ... conversation. In this way, I can talk to anyone even if it may be difficult. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... who were different from me. I was always very constant in my emotions

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018