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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  about our students—how interesting they tend to be and how interesting ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about ... semester to say she thought the introductory writing courses must rate as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are ... , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  European people how Americans dance to "Hey Ya!" I've said it before, but one thing I love about MIT is that 90% of the student body has no idea how to ... being on the boat, so there's not really any reason not to go. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  was going to make a joke about how "IM sports" aren't sports you play ... assumed that you will already know how to skate backwards and forwards. This ... (before chickening out after seeing how psycho all the Ben Stiller

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  imagine how exhilirating it is to keep up a renegade who's cutting off a ... and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  speaker talks and gallery shows + other cool stuff yay

  

  decisions about what to include, where to put things, and how viewers would ... enlightening to hear his thoughts on how and why social housing programs like ... This semester, I’ve really been trying to take advantage of MIT

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda, but there's just so little time to write when I could be sleeping. So

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered, and housing. While doing MISTI, I’ve taken two personal side trips: 1 to Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  might give away their act because I don’t know how else to describe them ... from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this summer” post. I’m working at Microsoft! Ok, post over, back to work

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... . The rest of this blog is going to talk about how economists try to ... might be interested in how going to school impacts people’s incomes. We

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would ... This IAP, I’ve gone to Brazil!  I’m taking WGS.245: Race, Place, and ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ...  Elizabeth Choe and current sophomore Loren Sherman to figure out how to do it. At ... A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... riddles whose solutions range from the sacred to the obscene but are always

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  to how the human eye works, how images are stored on your computer, how ... decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD ... Sudan, etc. While reading an article, I happened to sit up straight, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  , and MIT Pro-Choice, and am a chapter coordinator for How to Get Around ... Pearl Jam, but at the moment I'm listening to How to Dismantle an Atomic ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  ' win rates.) As for how this applies to real life… well, whatever, I ... -based rather than real-time, meaning you can take as long as you want to make ... to start over from the beginning. The archetypical example, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  unsent drafts and attachments old and neglected enough to be hanging out in ... to myself 1.7 years ago during my first visit to MIT: Wednesday: I ... then went to the top floor of the tallest building in Cambridge (later

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  symbols, to represent how gender balanced the class is. I'll explain my take ... to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of my summer vacation. DID YOU KNOW? Portland, ME was once home to the world's tallest building. After breakfast, we took a drive down to Old

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005