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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day ... whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... meeting everyone who will be there (here)! In the meantime, I'm off to a ... the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to ... food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of ... frequent in our whom- construction and usage also it's amusing to see a graph ... Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own ... I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... will aid you in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting a field

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... operate a Tech Dinghy, which is the most basic type of sailboats at MIT. In order to take Sailing, you will also need to pass a "Boating Test" after

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  ’re going to run in the coming weeks. I’ve been tasked with putting mice in a ... :57 - 200 questions later, all done! Might need to put a little studying in ... 4-hour Zoom lectures on Tuesday nights).  It’s coming to a close now

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... about winter is going to be much more vociferous this year. fluency in a ... , unable to pick out Iraq on a map. As I'm leaving, I realize that while in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to use each machine, we get to learn by making a spiffy Stirling engine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... to a fraternity or sorority, and only 2 are from the east side of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... arrived in the Admissions Office. For students for whom midyear grades are a ... grades may take longer to process in some school systems this may take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... by Visa and MasterCard for currency conversion to Volaris. In return ... at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... think it's true. ----- Five days ago, I was tucked away in a lounge on ... :P Every once in awhile, you come to MIT and you hear of kids here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... myself, and I managed to catch myself up in my classes. I made a huge ... take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  On November 20th in [annotation note="a lecture hall"]26 ... on, it turned out that MIT was also in talks with Disney for a general ... , projector checks (we had to bring a new projector courtesy of Disney since our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class ... Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015