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• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM and walked home under soft, acidic streetlights to an empty house with shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  Thursday from 12 to 1, I am in the T Club Lounge, sprawled on purple yoga ... mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General Institute Requirement in Physical Education. The requirement includes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to ... scheduled to graduate in the top one or two percent of their class," said ... ) was able to immerse himself wholeheartedly in a research curriculum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping Failure. In this workshop, I and other participants worked on developing a ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  and sunny it was here. Apparently in San Francisco (where we're all from ... thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  entire lecture in 10-250. So basically, this class is designed to teach us ... recording of it. Tidbit #2: Professor Yaffe is also an MD. Thus, to prove it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  In my last entry, I left you with this teaser: "I will reveal the #1 place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1 ... July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  -sized stuffed panther doll in the middle. To this day, I have no idea what was up ... the half hour, in room 32-144. I don’t want to give anything away ... . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... a bit, and matched the colors to the closest ones in the default ms ... image to match the color scheme of MS Paint using the functions in the lab

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  to take choir in my senior year of high school. i played piano and ... minor in college and this is my chance to explore music in a tangible ... in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the information age.) What will people be able to major in in 2105? ... here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our ... to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a ... It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I ... say no to things too. Why selection bias is the most powerful force in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  typically don't have to advertise our programs in science, engineering ... conclusion: SHASS is awesome and you should come to MIT and study (in) it! ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  is so difficult to answer is because of the problems I discussed in the ... -the-cuff judgments deserve to be taken seriously.   In other words, if you have a ... . In fact, I laughed a little at Kahneman's reference to "true legends of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that ... , homemade gelato in Beacon Hill, truffles on Newbury, Trader Joe's chips in my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006