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• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... the wall. You can't really see anything in that picture. But what my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  lucky enough to secure the Clark Educational Center at South Miami Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who works at the hospital. It's a great space, and the hospital served some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city. Anyway, I wondered if I could somehow jog fast enough that the sunset would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... Keri Russell stars. It's something with those ladies from the WB, isn't it, Tom?) The second I de-planed, literally, I felt very much immersed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  I pulled another all-nighter this weekend. The last one I pulled was ... t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read: "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... 32 (aka the Stata Center) and taking questions, so I ran on over. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the film Meet the Parents, geniuses choose the color green. In addition to geniuses, green carpeting, green couches, and green chairs, the Lewis Music

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Does the transcript submitted on my QuestBridge application count as official?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  i attended junior year, they would play The Woods by Hollow Coves a lot near the end. it just, made sense. it was winter. we were sleeping in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  I'm taking 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, taught by Marjorie ... the descriptions that will then be given to an illustrator. Then this illustrator will take our script and transform it into the comics you know and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... -studying before I got to school that probably cushioned me from the shock I’d have ... that scary mathematical jargon for the first time. The fact that I have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  and wondering when exactly it was the last time you got to go outside ... outside just last week!) You forget, most of the time, that you're a student at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  machine: Unfortunately, someone fixed the perennially-malfunctioning washing ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Let's continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013... Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... Watkins Memorial graduate Sean Fannin will attend the Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... mechanical engineers love the math and physics behind it all, not everybody has

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... love the American Revolution. I find it so inspiring that the colonists had the gumption and self-reliance to strike out as their own

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... . The actual topics covered are "Proofs and Number Theory, Structures ... check out the OCW course here or the current course here. In fact, the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo were empty.  The cats were begging for attention for the first time in ... or driving across the country or exploring caves. Yet I was here, at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... another life. So I indulged in the visual fantasies, especially when I came

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014