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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced ... before, so it was cool to walk around and see everything eerily shut down and quiet. That’s why I like snow so much--it makes everything quiet and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  ="aligncenter" width="500"] how it started[/caption] dear past me, This year, I moved ... the only one on my floor. As hurricane Henri made its way to Rhode ... person’s return, tied to all the memories from the past year. It is as

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  has a long name for something so simple, but yeah. It's exactly what you ... for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... thought this would be really hard but it took maybe 20 minutes. It's so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... intellectually -- and it is another thing to go somewhere and witness this fact

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  typically often used as a verb. It refers to an action or a series of actions ... devising these potentially senseless punt puzzles. It all began when I ... , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  required. Our task, as we see it, has been to consider how the Institute may ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go on FTX’s (Field Training Exercises). These are 3 day long

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  good economic reason, why and how viral content goes viral, and so on--it ... with Valve, Beyoncé with Beyoncé. But it's actually the case that ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting ... the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... once we know it; we'll likely make that announcement on the blogs late

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers ... your application less than two weeks ago, don't worry about it ... in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony Hall looks when it is not so yucky outside. Here's the beautiful ... for which he has composed was approximately 35 lines long. Here's what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can ... MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between ... ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... ) – instead, I found myself missing forced family dinnertime (no matter how busy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  this semester, in which we learn about what's taught at Sloan and how it ... advanced hip hop one and it’s a great time! it’s also only an hour-long ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  's how we have the freedom to write honestly about what it's like to be an ... ; i don't know the details. but it's difficult for me to understand how ... the right to know what data is collected about them, how it is analyzed

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  adequate enough to describe how cold this water was. It was freezing. Arctic ... Puffs and Lucky Charms. Cereal and I have such an involved long-term relationship that it doesn't even know I'm cheating on it with Cold Pizza

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during quarantine. It started with a regular Wikipedia rabbit hole, but out of extreme ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  tried to think how to solve it. I was exhausted when I walked through the ... to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011