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  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  In spring 2018, we wrote a post called Visual Arts @ MIT. In that ... have done at MIT in an attempt to illustrate that, despite common belief ... with art at MIT in that post. But looking back at our four years, now

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... of the light filtering through the pink curtains of my bedroom in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... HASS = Humanities Arts and Social Sciences REST = Restricted Elective in Science and Technology CI-H = Communication Intensive in HASS CI

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2.007 Robot Competiton where 32 finalists from 153 entrees compete in various ... dump tea bags into the Boston Harbor, hang up lanterns in the North

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  interested in the pursuing both comptuer science and design here at MIT (I just declared Course 6-3 on Friday! And there's also a new Minor in Design that is ... fireside chat, I asked him what advice he has for MIT students in my position

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere ...   In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... comments written in the margins and funny quotes from the professor. So, in ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  . One evening, I had my head in the sky for SEVEN HOURS straight: one hour ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace Observatory. There, I sat outside in the snow, huddling in six layers of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... 'm in the latter group.  I came to MIT intending to major in something Bio

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There ... . Students who are admitted in this transfer cycle would begin MIT in the ... US citizenship or permanent residency should apply in the Spring for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America ... down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... about the perspective of an 86 year old veteran and videogamer on life in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... can talk about stuff you do that you might have included in your ... to: 2) keep it civil - in tone, in subject matter, etc. we're all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  work of a visiting artist (often an artist-in-residence), but it also ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building ... , though, is interdiscplinary in nature and stems from a desire to establish

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this means recognizing the winners of the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in ... Wiesner Student Art Gallery in the MIT Student Center. Richard The (G

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  classes in previous terms I could have graduated by now!" But I am not ... in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has ... thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you'll hear from me after that :) However, in the meantime: Congratulations to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift ... weights. A working-class kid raised just off Foster Road in Southeast Portland, the 6-foot-2, 240-pound teen is a leader in the school wood shop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009