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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  the Arts), Pardis Parsa (Office of Arts Initiatives), myself, and Mei ... Media Lab building, and now the home of many MIT arts departments) and ... was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  become a mosaic of all that life gives you. Your high points lay the ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the past three years of my life. And in the blink of an eye, I’ve gone from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement of Purpose required by grad schools is probably the hardest thing you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you ... one of the best ways to enjoy it. if your fast walking procedure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a ... jelly beans that resembled the colors of their logo...and no it was not Mc

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  of being difficult, but 6.115 hit the rare sweet spot of being ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things ... that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... because of the MITOC (MIT Outing Club) mailing list and other email ... we met up with the team! Meeting one of the captains of the team

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... you can get a sense of the basic design direction.   Student ... explains each one of them. This structure was borrowed from the application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled ... as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note ... while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... experiments and write the final draft of the paper. I've been moving numbers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  spanning the month of January called the Independent Activities Period, or ... without knowing what day of the week it is, you can spend all your time ... Learning division). The office was located at the end of Memorial Drive, so

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

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  of way. I'm back home, surrounded by the interminable expanse of flat ... , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... contributing member of society) dauntingly feels at hands reach. The unknowns are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... availability of projects around campus while giving a glimpse into the labs of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... -tech training tools I was really surprised by the layers of safety and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving ... "]We[/annotation] drove up to Paterson Falls, a waterfall in the middle of the industrial ... .” With the exception of another friend actually from New Jersey, people ate

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (sorry, Nathan) and utterly incomprehensible. Sense of place is perhaps the most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note ... grandfather’s grave.    When I came to MIT, the repertoire of places I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the ... problems from a lot of competitions, but by far the most valuable resource for me was the AoPS forum. Some of the best and brightest students

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011