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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the ... . This blog post is a summary of the event. ________________________ Imagine: you are a prospective university student in India, 600 BC

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  pandemic, and that i stagnated while living in a house with the same six ... -person as a non-junior is causing a bit of a resurgence. somehow, the more ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... ) is essentially a practice of executive discretion, no one knows yet if ... Chancellor and Office of the General Counsel also published a document

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  excerpt from a random poem in The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, which is a ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a moment that I've constantly been replaying in my head in ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  Maison Française," "MIT Classes," and "MIT Extracurrics" are now all in a folder called "Old." Eek. In "Old," I found a folder named after my high ... was today" and wishing me a happy birthday. In the e-mail, he also

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  this past summer I reread the entire series for the first time in a while ... figure out who (or what) is behind it all.     (Note: This is a stuffed ... caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  the MIT Corporation, his successor Chuck Vest said in a speech, “Is Paul ... brilliant and diverse perspectives is a dynamic source of new ideas. In his ... students, who are historically under-represented in STEM education. This is a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  know what we're doing in a few years, no matter how well we document it ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very ... : Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean, 2003. --- What happened ... otherwise known in the course catalog as 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... circadian rhythm out of whack. A few months ago, I was easily putting in ... ] Showing my age I used the slang word "slay" in a conversation the other day

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of ... distant past and hasn’t been held in a while, but this is actually louise ... ? every relationship is going to produce a decent amount of new anxiety. in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... everything in 6.2050 is built into physical hardware. Plus, my advisor ... , but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  nomadic devices, rest assured that the third author is in fact yours truly ... a unique name.) My influence is most clearly seen in the acceleration ... - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... "QuestBridge". Q: Where do I send my financial documents? A: Fax them to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... B1 residents use the stairs. At this point in time, B1 didn't have a ... book theme that was in line with a previous mural. Rob loves Calvin and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  obscure occasions of note. Created by a leading young visionary in the ... freight railroading. I'm not out working in a rail yard -- I've actually got ... . This attractive housing tract in North Fort Worth provides a predictable

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which ... a graduate dorm now, which is still a dorm, but I have my own bedroom

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly ... -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... -me-to-be-your-friend cool. For $250, all DJs in the studio would sing a song of your choosing

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  that was difficult and confusing. I remember staring in a mirror and ... school's courtyard together, like there was a sense of pride in being with ... searching in the realm of my school was far too limiting and I ended up in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021