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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... he’d already contacted him again to ask him to come aboard for this ... , in use 90% of its available time. So, it made perfect sense to make

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  1970s, waiting to be excavated by some admissions officer 50 years later ... directly to the Office of Admissions the FINAL APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... even taken to court and threatened with jail time for hacking. More incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... quotas or targets for any racial or ethnic group, but we can take steps to ... context. We believe it is crucial for the successful future of our world to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  , Lilly, and Petey for some CMS-related thoughts. Extra thanks to Mark, the CMS librarian, for the literature references. Thanks to Lumia and Paolo for commenting on drafts. Thanks to Wayne for snarking on drafts, for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  , prompting inquiries into “differing cultural values” to account for the ... female identity scored an average of 3.86 on the exercise, compared to the ... asked to imagine themselves as stereotypical men for a few minutes. None

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... comparison to the best solar cells available today, with some designs achieving ... contain images of Catsby, so we all know who the real winner is here. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  in time. The “room” was actually a big wooden shipping container ... so glad I got to take part in an MIT tradition that I’ll get for the ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list ... good for myself, because otherwise I'll have to deal with something I ... I wanted to play with friends. Making something useful for others is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  tons of nooks to study in on every floor of building 9 (except maybe the ... since it's my last semester, I've been trying to spend more time ... 'll soon be graduating from!! to try to get myself out of my room more, I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe.) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  . Any of the options available to you will open up vast possibilities for ... family of MIT to be famous for how we treat people: famous for sympathy ... are tentatively up to for the next five years, what they are excited for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... decide you want to live there, can you pick that dorm for the second ... -- spots need to be freed up in order for people to move in. 2. Charlotte

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  carry boxes to fighting for our friends who weren’t being granted ... together in an unprecedented way to be there for one another, to take care of ... level used their platforms to advocate for others and to make sure as many

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  ’t figured out that the best thing to do in a strange new place was to ask for ... building across, as though afraid to head there for a Biology Final it hadn ... Things took a turn for the worse. Quickly. Very quickly. -- August

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  imperfect, and thus that there's a ton of room for me to have an impact. Most ... .042: Mathematics for Computer Science  (2) 6.08: Introduction to EECS via ... wanted to be an engineer to begin with.  2.00C: Design for Complex

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  this, my mom and I went to Michaels and went a little sale-crazy. We got ... playdough, and now carry around a little playdough for me to fidget with when ... cold shower Listening to music/painting/art Go for a walk or run

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  see me with studs for eyes, I am singing the song which gives birth to ... information contained within the universe. A small library near jlab ceases to ... back into the corporeal world disoriented, only for me to hand you a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  Fruit Club. I said hi to friends boothing for the Educational Studies ... schedule does not have enough space for all the classes I want to take. And ... for crying. Though he didn't understand why it was bad, he learned to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... MIT utterly failed to prepare me for the real world.  I wish there had ... to launch after graduation left me truly bitter about MIT for awhile

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014