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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... waxed philosophical in a fairly lengthy essay, pondering if the segue into

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Solicitation You've got questions. I'll have answers tomorrow night.

  

  thing that's happened to me in the last few days is that Adam and I went ... . In my defense, I'll say that I'm a lot less of a drama queen than I was in high school... although objectively I suppose there was nowhere to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation ... to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... drawing properly using a trackpad. Anyways, art is very very critical to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... , whether you're a major (or double major) in Management Science, or taking advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  , I go on calls on a quest to save the world.  I'm technically only in ... in a lot of pain, but she liked talking to me and I liked talking to her, and she was calm when we brought her in on a stretcher to the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “ ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my ... ) to do some of my modeling -- overall a pretty freaking sweet program

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... deportation procedures. In short, we can come with a lot of baggage; baggage

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  to be Saturdays, when I assumed I’d have a lower-than-average step ... FPOPs). In my FPOP, I got to see the wonders of MIT’s mechanical ... own room. I also get access to a kitchen, which I share with my suite

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... friends. and i only have so many hours in a weekend. and then. then there

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  -internship. I’ll be honest, I applied to this on a bit of a whim. I was sitting in ... worked in industry, or in a solid 9 to 5 time block. I’ve broadly decided ... architect be placed in a particular climate change context? Is there a way to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre ... like this. It was a bad week.) Needless to say, I am not about to walk

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  started out thinking of all the fun ways to play with setting it in a modern ... wears the closest thing to a suit (though, unlike in the orignal, our ... scene in Richard III, a director can choose to play it in many different

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds ... always wanted to have a brother. Last Saturday, that dream came true ... otherwise, and my fraternity has played a huge role in my life ever since I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... students in a couple weeks, and the point of this assignment is to teach a ... and consecutive nine hours of sleep in a long time, I learned how to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And unlike some people I know, I'm just not willing to release a mediocre ... ), was no longer in working condition. By the way, did you know a 60 mile

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005