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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of competition between ... fun? Is there a diverse set of student activities, or does everybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  interaction design to either improve an existing solution or address an ... for two reasons: 1) We would be working on designing an application for

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  rowing. I decided to come down to DC for the conference back in October or ... Course 1. There are a lot of Course 1 grad students who come to TRB every

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... "radium is more reactive than that!" or "Hey you forgot manganese!" It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... about 1 microliter in volume (way less than a drop!) and is held in a tray ... the 1 million screened compounds, they find about 20,000 promising ones

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  questions from the trivia competition: 1. What famous general ... 'm still not sure if he was kidding or not. Scroll down slightly for the answers. 1. Dwight Eisenhower 2. Freddie Mercury 3. Switzerland and Vatican

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  /statistics class. From Anna: Do you know anyone at MIT who came from a rural area or ... , people from mining or factory towns...you'll see all sorts of people with ... taking 18.01 (Calculus 1) and, say, 8.01L (Physics 1 at a slow pace, for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  As the November 1 Early Action deadline approaches, we have been ... litany of disasters and/or disruptions: fires, blackouts, strikes, typhoons ... 617-253-3400 or email us at [email protected]. We’ll be here to talk to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  's somekind of freshmen musical dorms thing or something but ya... what'd u ... - you can either confirm your current housing situation, or you can enter ... submit your readjustment preferences. The next day, the results come out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  or techniques don't get adequately proven, and there's some level of ... days, I would be the only one in office hours. But I ended up learning so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  cover of a song or audition to be part of one. Each cover lead will work ... days on campus used to feel. I want to see Synco's collab with ADT! and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  barbecuing that we decided to use [safely] one day. i was really excited for it ... amazing experiences no matter where you are in the world or how constricting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  shifted the culture of my living space, and I find myself not willing or ... people have memories plastered all over them that sometimes dim my day. But

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  or 5.  It's been itneresting to boil my personal development down to 1 ... was then, nor did I know anything about urban planning or transportation.  Back then, I was leaning towards Course 2 with product design or

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true. Believe it or not, MIT has ... No. 1" by Sofia Gubaidulina "Am I Evil?" by Metallica "Children of the ... air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston ... . If I had been 10 seconds later, if he'd looked up, or if there hadn ... efficient or productive. They go in with big goals, get told that it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members, students representing different ... 's first decision was whether to use the beaver or the Great Dome on the ring ... catalog the recent history of Brass Rat designs, focusing on the bezel, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  wouldn't be here. In that regard, nerdiness (or geekiness, or love of knowledge, or whatever you want to call it) is one of the great unifying ... some select pieces of evidence. Exhibit #1: 1024. (Think about it. Now

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  stuff, if you're a budding engineer or inventor, what can you do? It's a ... about them! Use the optional essay (Question 13: "show us and/or tell us about something you have created") or attach supplemental materials (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR ... be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this blog? Au ... here? (Movie trivia #1) Good question! Please allow myself to introduce

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005