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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  here's a brief message brought to you by my junk mail.) I have a first ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... . Talk to upperclassmen. Wander into strange rooms. Host a random dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said ... is awesome!). To be considered for a blogger position, you should email ... current bloggers had been keeping a personal blog for years prior to working

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  subject I'm poor at, and applies it to biology, a subject I'm good at. We ... Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because on the last day of class they invite a local string quartet group to ... ’t very hard - there’s just a checklist of requirements your music has to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  analogies from the past to their lay image of the new technology, create a ... ” (2006). It has nothing to do with objectivity and a lot to do with ... neutrality to develop a generalizable framework for assessing the neutrality of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... to the Class of 2023. A few years ago, in a post addressed to wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture ... was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  every Thursday and Friday this summer, I hop on a bus to work at WGBH, the ... , how to develop a Pinterest presence, etc. Fun fact: back in the day, the ... architecture to media. And since then, I’ve been embarking on new adventures

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... existence - Aardvarks are cool. 9. Learn how to solve a Rubik's cube - I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  first college and enroll at the second. This shifting can lead to a second ... enroll. We'll give you a financial aid package and you'll have time to ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility ... okay for portions of my thesis to be under a  Creative Commons - Non ... writing thesis.  Alan: Every Sunday, Fatima brings a poem which is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... applications. I write some, I take pictures a lot. I'm going to concentrate in ... wittled the list down to must-haves and can't-live-withouts and it made a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  convince her to write a guest entry? No, that's not gonna happen. ... Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... , and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of ... incoming freshmen to the new curriculum. And 6.001 doesn't really have a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  . Last year, the Logs burst into my Quantum Lecture, and sang to a boy in the ... On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do ... was a bit of a struggle, as I’ve tried to write joint posts before, but ... ."]quick[/annotation] crash course by giving a formal introduction to Nimbus, our pride and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2030. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us ... moments of light still to come. Remember that you will survive — and

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025