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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  rail, and is also accessible by bus, although we rode the Red Line to Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is ... provide, but without any of the questions or judgement!). Walden is also

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop ... pink and purple, and cracked open with lightning. That is how lightning looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied ... bacteria and plants) is a moth. Many are large and colorful. Some are rare ... school, I’d found over five hundred species. Then MIT happened and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a ... are wondering, the admissions blogger of whom I speak is me. In the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  summer after their freshman year. This program is a Professional ... my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th ... Air Force is like. The experiences I had working on real projects

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a magnetic disk. Here's the description of the problem: http://web.mit.edu/6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  fourth floor: This is the door to GRT Vikash's room - The 4th HNC ... working on sewing projects like the flower Amy '10 is making below: Trust me, she's happer than she looks. That's it. I'm all pictured out. (Is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is ... showing them through code - vb + java. Are there similar programs at MIT ... classes is particularly blurred in the math department, where you often don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of ... rider is very safely strapped in. All our Rush rides are approved by the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  "Gentlemen's Club" 19th birthday party, which is why I'm dressed up. July '05 ... rate), and the debate is one of the few parts of the process that I ... . This is actually a good pic, though I bet my mom would disagree (she was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions ... have is to be confidently relaxed. I hope that you have gone both through

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  . DARTH VADER: And what is that? LUKE: I... am not left-handed! [switches ... : LUKE: Hello. My name is Luke Skywalker. You killed my father. Prepare to die. If anybody from MTG is reading this... you've got three more shows

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  rubble back together. There is MIT Mental Health, there are GRTs (Graduate ... essays. This is Introduction to Linguistics: an awesome class, which opened ... , who is from Nepal. A shout-out to Pramod '14, who has now spent hours

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  lot. Boston is cold, gloomy, and (maybe because I'm just lazy) school started again! As promised: the continuation - 51. Stitch is wildly popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  'd start having this conversation- organizing MIT students is nearly ... "beaver down."   Kelly '09 is giving an excited thumbs up. She ... MIT. That's AWESOME." It's like the complementary bookmark to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  ’ve taken at MIT: every week we’d write a poem in our own time and then read ... how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress was hot so i tipped her extra”    my pain is a stone fruit whose

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... is (vaguely) the dimension of what you're considering."] possible ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve ... experience, messing up is pretty much guaranteed. On the other hand, a 24-pack ... soft flesh is less fun though, so always carve away from yourself!

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023