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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  “result” of each group reported to a manager. For any given group of 3, the ... how this might happen for a moment, and then look at the diagram below ... reasoning for this is a little tricky, but here goes: consider the 3J-1 people

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  choosing to make Khan Academy non-profit: "What's a home run in the for ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... the phone. A tall, tattooed man walks in wearing a skintight red devil

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  despite having worked in the industry for two summers in a row. Occasionally ... actually played this game for the first time on a hallmate's PS4 during ... me for a long, long time. The Last of Us Part II [caption id="" align

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• 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 ... pass/fail instead of with a letter grade, you can use the additional ... disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... than i’d expected to, largely because the learning curve for beginners is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  way for a lot, but when we knock on the door, and it opens, the light ... (these are after all new faces in a place I was setting foot into for the ... . The dancing continues for a bit. Kayode takes lots of pictures. Soon

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  for the holidays. I had other plans for break, but they fell through, so ... .) As I was saying. The walls. My room. I have a single, and strangely ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  for good. A week ago, I introduced Bipolar Junction Transistor to the ... into a cat. When I first got him a week and a half ago, he was about the ... lose him in my room. He’s just a little baby When I first got the boy

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  (where the sidewalk ends), I'm from Bethesda, MD (a suburb of Washington ... the Dominican Republic. I went with my family and we stayed at a French ... wind and trudging through the snow), I really needed a sunny vacation. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Some Notes Misc. fun stuff.

  

  for particular high schools, but at MIT we admit the best students ... admissions [read more: Bloomberg] The latest Harvard Business Review has a ... Today is the first day of final exam week at MIT. [read more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... their own experiment. Pall and I are convinced we had the best setup for this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the ... out and shook up my routine a little bit the other day. Before heading

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Lunches! Every week a group of ESGers come together to make lunch for the ... mix and match the schedule that fits best for you. Not a morning person ... can come back for the next three years and TA. This is a unique

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  that East Campus runs for the prefrosh, which probably sounds a lot ... the grills. Thankfully, it was a beautiful morning that boded well for ... after running around distressed for a while (and setting some of the cakes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally ... the man across from me. He has a beard like Edward Abbey's and a red

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  , and epic-scale lust for the power caught up in a little golden ring ... premiered in a theatre Wagner built specially for it. True to form, the ... Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... . This marks the end of a very good start to what will be a very good ... , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  QUESTIONS" and gaining a new found  respect for the macroscopic world, the GIR ... considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  grabbed a program to read while waiting for the lecture to begin. That ... for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string ... introns are a huge source of discontinuity in scanning the genome for genes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  the increased cost of education. All three were fighting for a chance to ... States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014