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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  of math that'll apply to concurrent and future classes. Leaving 8 ... whether I double major or not.      5.111- Principles of Chemical Science ... taken, it's important to discuss what those random string of numbers we

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... sidewalks of Cambridge. One of the Random Hall graduate residential assistants walked by, witnessed my torpedoing burst of undiluted energy, and crossed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: Sign up for SAT Subject Tests SAT Subject Test registration deadline is April 28.

  

  suits you, and the science test of whichever science course you are taking ... your science class -- is still fresh in your mind. And this also allows ... Level 2), and one in science (Physics, Chemistry, or Biology E/M). You can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  of the humanities, and for others, math and science. Yes, even here ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  AP credit—the worst out of any school I researched when applying. If ... MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  continue with the math part of my degree. At the very least, I knew 18 ... overwhelming sense that I need to talk about all the difficulties of spring semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  memorial fund of a classmate who died in a car wreck - and oh yeah, applying ... -length weekend, if you don't have Monday off). I know that fall of senior year can be a pretty hectic time. During the October of my senior year, way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  . Best of luck to the seniors applying for college! ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  of the Wall Street Journal (sorry Mitra), Ruth applies the first gentle ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... ! Ruth's room before phase one of painting, with a fresh coat of Institvte

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science ... .S. military. The VA didn’t expect me to work for them either. One of my mentor ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  -pop" which to me sounds how it felt to apply to college, haha. Kind of like how ... the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  ideas apply to other disciplines of engineering like civil, biological ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  overcome. I feel like I directly applied some of my strategies for studying ... the implications of the affordable care act and universal health care in ... . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE ... MERRIMACK VALLEY OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. SNOW... WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ... CANCELLATIONS IN ALL SORTS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPENDENT BUSINESS. SNOWFALL RATES

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005