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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of ... a request that she give up the ring to the Rhinemaidens or the gods ... unfurling petals give a magnificent backdrop to the dazzling chandelier

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  . Bartolotta is a double major in physics and management sciences and expects to ... .0. He would be a sure thing to land a lucrative job in business or science ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... optimization. Often, you have to make judgement calls of whether to launch a ... us is: It’s better to make a bad decision now than a good one too late

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about nerd pride and it being a badge of honor to be called a nerd in my book ... raising his own son to be a nerd. And Ann Hoevel trying to sort out the

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  T (subway) or a taxi to get out there. I got back late because of Med ... . To be good at math is to catch a Curtis. We have a lot of those here at ... other day as I was walking back to my dorm, a stranger stopped me to ask

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... they were at the time. It's not meant to be a professional tour of MIT ... a quicker visual tour of campus. Or, just jump around to different

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  ") at a variety of companies with MIT alumni. I chose to do an externship ... ). I haven't figured out if I want to pursue a research career within ... comfortable. I was given a laptop, two monitors, and a bluetooth mouse to use

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course ... grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Too busy to write a blog, check out my playlist instead stuff I listen to when I code

  

  [caption id="attachment_88319" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (not by me)[/caption] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gPMHAyVIzQRXAkjHDbxty?si=d3d2d64a8f1d48bb Explicit lyrics. Don't play this in front of your

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy ... -based math, and it culminated in a project where I got the chance to listen to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big ... not get to hear from everyone, I hope to get a broad sense of community

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  does—it's great to have a teacher with such a huge range of experiences ... a texture, or feeling of a movement, to create. for example: "melt ... when you have to run around a studio acting like a paper airplane more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  programs have had their own App developed by a participant, just to keep ... , we are planning to have a platform-independent mobile site that should ... would like to get out of the experience, have a preliminary idea of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  was a golden era when faculty "didn't have to answer to anybody." She ... —as a much cheaper alternative to 16mm. Soon thereafter she collaborated ... , Naim June Paik dropped by, declared video a phenomenon comparable to

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that ... started landing that I realized I was going to be leaving home to start a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015