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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... walk to the department so you can get a taste of what it's like to study ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT ... his number in our animation drafts to scare him. Audrey: how do we end ... : soo we sat together and brainstormed how we can get away with having

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  mit x caltech rivals to lovers another comic shitpost

  

  i made this in a day and sacrificed a pset youre welcome

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope ... . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours a day, Monday through Friday, I'm taking 6.189 - a crash course in ... game of nims, and a Pig Latin converter (in addition other, less

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Victoria’s Secret Update UPDATE!

  

  Ok, quick update to my post immediately below this one. Read that one before this one, otherwise this one won't be nearly as exciting. Ok, so, now when you go to vote for MIT you get this lovely screen: YAY!

  • by Snively '11
  • November 2, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Why is it called the Brass Rat?

  It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT. We have all sorts of hobbies. In fact, you can get through MIT solving ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... as they compete in PyeongChang! Luckily, because I was close (ish) to ... in Barcelona, and then Essen, Germany, and time to rest up physically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... used to be pretty deeply entrenched in the YouTube hole for the majority ... 've been to a lot of the places shown in the video, so it just makes me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural ... During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going ... Question #1, I'd love to get Parent Question #2 (and 3, 4... n). ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  't able to have Mocha Show in 2021, however, so i was intent on contributing to the show as much as i could this time around. Ideating in the first ... practice (in red). as you can see, there's a lot of running from studio to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022