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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don ... beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in ... ranting, though. The point is that last night, a group of us helped our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to ... great...but it's good that I tried really hard. This part was not a ... roommates. Today, I walk away happily with 4 years in a single room, albeit a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but ... little bus sick and a cleaning is in order. Then there’s “deadheading ... don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  night, and then I still had a project proposal due today that I haven ... week. :) What's really messed up this semester is that I don't have class ... how old do you think I am?" "I don't know, 16?" Coworker in my lab

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry ... harder than I've ever worked before, I just also spent a lot of time doing ... with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  school, I discovered that the school library was built in the shape of a ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I ... schools in foreign countries was that a lot of them were international

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with, but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  first classroom is in a decently sized lecture hall, so I spend that time beforehand in a small classroom that overlooks Killian Court and work on my ... in a different way. I am really glad that I go to the lectures, so I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... closed-loop feedback systems. A guiding problem is that of regulating the ... smearing pastel across newsprint, which is, I think, the soul of art in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . Another perk is that MIT students have free admission! The first exhibit I ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  that you attend. I'm involved in: Campus Tours - If this is your ... so much information in such a small period of time that it is like ... surround yourself in the craziness that is MIT.  You are only a prefrosh once

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in general is a challenge, because you’re knowingly putting yourself in a ... waiting to go in for my recitation one morning when I overheard a tour guide

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  issue. A more realistic threat is that of having nothing to do. This ... ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... distribution of wealth overall). The reason I am saying all of this is that a ... regarding our policies and practices in these cases. The main takeaway is that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  more harshly. I received my first B on a college essay in that class, and ... ’t on libgen. Then, in a rush of power, I checked out books that had ... now, upon leaving, I have a few more reflections — mainly that exposing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... compounded - the arrival of Spring coincided with CPW, a weekend that is (for ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  culture of the students I think is something that really drew me there ... him leaving Roanoke in the fall. "I'm very very proud but very sad that ... with a minor in material science engineering. "I really like being able

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  possible. And that is considering that the Professor started the talk with a ... the course is a celebration of critical thinking. I highly recommend ... . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  offered to try to do it in Blender! I knew that Blender had a free Cell ... didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s definitely good for beginners! I’m just gonna do everything in Blender’s grease

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023