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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  professors that, in order to make up for not having a problem set one week ... : Harmony and Counterpoint II -- Well, I have to write a theme in the high ... -day week and here's what I've done tonight: 1. gone to a two-hour group

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Things I have been doing since my last post: -Moving up a floor to a ... allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but ... with it coming in. And because of this, the class has gotten a lot of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again ... .Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford in England as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... front of a panel of distinguished judges. To the victor go the spoils. And ... comically improbable possibilities? Can I just take a moment here to marvel

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it ... be attempting to run in the Boston Marathon. If you can brave the rain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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