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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done ... scale seems arbitrary and intellectually lazy, with far too much potential ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration ... , move fast, and break things (though not literally because musical instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite Corridor[/annotation] that, [annotation note='Former blogger —  and ... admissions office, and the Welcome Center, have been in development since at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  pandemic disrupted, but here in Cambridge, vaccination rates are high, and so ... ://youtu.be/Ofp26_oc4CA livestream of me posting the blogger app and prospective ... . Admissions officers can explain complicated processes and provide words of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet ... touchscreens: 🤢 3D modeling and animation: ❌ 2D illustration and graphic

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms, and the class sparked an entire international "Fab lab" movement. Each ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  . Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... products). We (my mom and I) arrived in Shanghai last night. Today (June 3rd

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this intense fear of missing out, I've definitely made an effort to get out and ... this class called "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to the Science

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and went through my normal morning routine: showering, packing my bag, and ... stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  sports.  These hardcore ice climbers and mountaineers, braving the unknown - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... of a Patagonia catalog.  Certainly I loved hiking, and spent a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  this Friday), and attempting to put together and remember choreography on ... good time and if you're anywhere vaguely in the vicinity of the Boston ... -the-end-of-the-semester feelings (last day of classes in next Wednesday, and finals week follows

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... quirks and eccentricities are an important dimension of who they are, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  , college kiddos, and old folks who really like our retirement communities ... wrapping Christmas presents and loading the dishwasher. If only I could make ... ?” Me: * And then I went back to reading my Martha Stewart Living

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over ... decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... and over and over again: See, the weird thing about the Patriots this year (and the last few years) is that the team has been consistently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  2011, we sent more students abroad from Electrical Engineering and ... working on improving user productivity and blogging experience. The city ... variety of food, not too terribly crowded and close to a number of beautiful

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front. And what I’ve got is this pretty amazing flowchart my cross-country co-captain and fellow blogger Maggie drew up: You see, after every away meet

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  a good ten minutes, I decided to call home and get my mom to check for ... to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And told her how to log in. And listened to her read the letter. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010