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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  , my determination to put aside art for more "serious" schooling had a ... it wasn't until this semester that I took a class that made me lust for ... meet for two hours each Friday in the New Media Center, the Mac

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  voting, despite being aware of current events, I never participated for ... make a life's goal in which I attend a rally for each presidential ... him and Ted Kennedy speak to make up for it or something - Caroline

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... and tested every single chair for comfort. Here's a quick breakdown ... , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  MIT for undergrad. You know it! More immediately, I have no summer ... because my one requirement for a job this summer is NOT TECHNICAL. So she ... tomorrow I'm heading down to JP Licks for free scoop day. The last time I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... the ropes. If you can't make it up for an overnight visit, there ... it's absolutely possible to find the right one for you (mine is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... graduation would be a time for goodbyes and reflections. "Just four years ago ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology ... engineering grad school admissions (both for you guys and for my favorite ... 's true for biology is pretty true for all of the natural sciences). First

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... for admission, and there are no minimum test scores. Test scores are one ... credit will be given for 7.012, Intro Biology. 2 Placement and 12 units of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... , and since flights were also relatively cheap,  for spring break my ... so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... sunny Sunday afternoon. But there I was weeping. Weeping for people whose

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of print for decades, but for our new website, the College Board agreed to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  , or UROPs. For the 6 courses I'm taking this semester, I have 1 End ... -August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project ... final papers -- due in mid-June -- to count for the majority of our marks

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms ... (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who ... good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  Working for Veterans Affairs It’s 7am on a Tuesday, and I need to get ... “punky,” and I felt welcomed. I never expected to work for the U.S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  The writing process is different for every one of your favorite bloggers. I usually have to wait for inspiration to hit before I'm able to sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  -shaming me for bringing huge containers of steel-cut oats into the office and eating them like an actual horse 3) It's time for those of you who ... ’s like to be in a Sadoway lecture, or planning stuff for REX, or UROPing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for ... for a sophomore year elective. Since then, that project has grown into ... White House ​advisor for ​mobile and ​data ​innovation. He will work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... for which we’re creating solutions. So, for instance, we can’t design an ... . For instance, GR1 is about defining the problem statement, identifying

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  through EMTing for a bit to help myself. It's all figured out, right? Where ... awesome fabrics for space for firefighting for everyday use IT ... internships and friends that I had. I'm excited for the next step (a real job (I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016