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Blog / Academics & Research
Taste of the Middle Ages
the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection -------- -
Blog / MIT Life
Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.
The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth
to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living ... I don’t have the voice to ever become better than a mediocre singer ... ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love -
Blog / MIT Life
At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles
So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!
) poetry with the blogs. I love writing about and highlighting the humanities ... be fun to share some with you. I asked the class to submit poems if ... adore everyone's writing and everyone in the class is super, super -
Blog / Admissions
Selection-time Questions Omnibus
on here and say harsh things?" Well, as has been noted in the comments ... hope that these blogs have shown you the care and consideration we give ... out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I -
Blog / Admissions
The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…
the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... their materials after the deadline. We are much more flexible and ... this date and you will still be fine. Please allow five days for the -
Blog / IAP
The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.
My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order -
Blog / MIT Life
Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.
Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I IMDB'd it before writing this blog. Fun fact: under the space ... as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days
entry. Thanks everyone! Expect an entry tonight about how to make the -
Blog / Academics & Research
year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?
advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe, and also how to navigate the Course 2 roadmap, littered with numbers ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24
This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted Student Welcome and Closing Show—two of the flagship events of CPW. Jeremy wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that -
FAQ / First-year application
How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?
Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form -
Blog / MIT Life
Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…
pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the world’s largest fire hose . . . ever . . . in the world . . . /universe -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator
There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math wafting into the next room. It’s in the name, after all–the Mathachusetts -
Blog / Challenges
classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law
Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so -
Blog / Academics & Research
teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on
every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... day meaning the first three days of web.lab, after which mit announces that classes are no longer allowed to serve food. you feel the strain in -
Blog / How to Human
Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion
at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... late! Communication was bad on both ends; you’ll get it done. And the ... , so they know what they got. If we’re doing the work during the hours we -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and ... . And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight