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• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6 ... of a life to live. And then after a blink or two, in my case, anyway

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  are intentionally designed to be solved by one or two people, ideally of ... ' take on this program because it's one of those "you get what you give ... 's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  week or two ago, which is like Splendor but better, and I’ve played it at ... legs were both straight, or of the top wasn’t curved in the way it is ... part of the bar on top. It was challenging to use the bandsaw to cut an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  I work on, and I love my grit, my capacity to suffer, the feeling of ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  .008 is a manufacturing class where you're required to make a large batch of ... the precursor to modern robotics. CNC mills or lathes are machines which ... part on a solid modeling program, import that file to a CAM program which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the ... /insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar ... creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  ? Senior spring is supposed to be the best semester of college, where we get ... longer getting any of those things, which is immensely sad and frustrating ... course that all on-campus students had to take. There's still a ton of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  in mind when I wrote this, but one year is a lot of time to hold on to ... was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... better. Well I ate most of my meals either at Alpha Delta Phi or at the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  have a better chance of getting in. But based on self-selection and a ... MIT, PAKSMIT, is collecting donations and manage any sort of ways to ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... asking a bunch of people what the color of each ball is to get a consensus ... verifier is, they might ask to repeat the swapping procedure 10, 100, or 1000

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  photo I have; do you have any better? I came to the office one morning of ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... to 1,000 potential members of next year's freshman class. Are you going

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic ... that it took her to walk across the Harvard Bridge (which ironically

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  is always an element of chance to what does and does not go viral, I ... laughable awkwardness of the situation is magnified by the dazed expression on ... relative accessibility. Blahaj is affordable compared to other plushies of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  the end of the day, they aren't going to do your psets for you, or call ... Langer Lab is in about 24 hours, or that you really need to start blogging ... sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  to video game The Last of Us, and is now working on a fantasy trilogy ... . Next week, we move on to worldbuilding. As part of the storytelling ... drawing comics, which is: just start!! Just draw comics. Just draw lots of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... one is expected to spend at least EIGHTEEN HOURS A WEEK on work. I don ... where the hydrogen is within the galaxy) to map features of the spiral arm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  , regardless of citizenship or location, will be able to apply for either admissions round, EA or RA. Other aspects of our policy will not change ... I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  at least. But woe is this Texan on the first day of snow...which could ... 're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... of the week. On Wednesday, all BoC hosts showed up to help Ben. The

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  Interpretation of Computer Programs, is taught in a language called Scheme, which ... the lower bound on each of these. Yes, scores do tend to correlate with ... amazing universities, many of which don't have any Nobels to their name. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  !”, high school is still a time of your life, which will soon not be the ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all ... more frequent ^^”). What I actually want to talk about today is really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015