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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  tweets aren't very funny. But some of them are really funny, if in an ... actually did. Here's how: First, I wrote a crude but effective scraper in ... line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  institutional behavior. Many of the best jobs held by leaders in the field, will ... problem, an expanding set of exciting career opportunities are emerging in ... —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... last day of class is tomorrow, but I only have 7.28 (molecular biology ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I ... wish I wasn’t so much of a freak that I can’t bring myself to respond. I

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... unofficial score report faxed or mailed in the meantime. You can mail it to MIT ... transcript. Q: Can I add MIT supplements (portfolios, recommendations, etc

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  soda can holder things. In fact, I got a bunch of free stuff that I wasn ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT ... gift shop that said “There are 10 types of people in this world

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured ... the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ork_hard.shtml I think I can, I think I can (Bryan): How do you have time to have fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time ... . But these sounds aren't really, if ever, used in English (but they can

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  :) Can't wait to meet more of you '15s in the fall! ... respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many ... Whitehead of MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research? Yeah, like I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... take from the waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I know some ... numbers of people. Most people on the waitlist will not be admitted, in all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  . There are nice things on the walls of my room, too. I bought these in ... towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 ... own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated ... of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  over the next couple of days. Moving on to rooms: I've been living in a ... corner of a wall. I know. Neha '10 wants me to write "ON PURPOSE" in ... Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while ... at me. I didn't do it. Speaking of EC, this evening when I was walking ... explaining: Or you can just watch this, a video of an interesting phone call

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... trial and error, I’ve become an expert in certain areas of the MIT ... . (I want *that* job!) One of the lecturers needs a document camera in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months ... inspired and jubilant, saying something along the lines of this: "I'm going ... reach of seats by the window. I wrote for a while. I thought of Anis

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  -Perez) and I engaged in an online experiment: we took all of the lectures for 6 ... participating in recitation (in groups of 25); plus one hour per week actively engaged in tutorial (in groups of 4 to 5). An important point is that

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007