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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas ... through them to reach the creamy filling-- the good stuff of my MIT ... every single day. There`s a fire raging in Cambridge (on one side of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  throw at them. This is why finals at MIT are a whole new kind of special ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave ... , no, it doesn't make any sense to me). Good luck with the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  even the average number of hours for each class (based on course ... (ASEs) when absolutely necessary. ASEs are basically a way to test out of ... I imposed on myself. It’s probably one of the most painful to follow

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  couple of courses here on materials which talk about different properties ... The grass is always greener on the other side. Or that's what they ... called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  meet new people → have more free time; do work ahead of time so you can ... much. write a new set of stories / novel-length piece — probably in ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  various deadlines seem to be coming up way to fast. Sadly, that's just part ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm ... Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  reputation this way (similar to lots of 5-star ratings on Amazon or Airbnb ... and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing ... [annotation note="i'm on a quest to plaster every inch of the walls of my ... way to doing this! i'm reading Americanah with the goal of fully

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  is in good condition, but the paint on top of it is old and peeling ... : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on ... words, I don’t have to spend that much time outside of class on homework ... of the way. But since I don’t attend lecture or recitation, the class

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of ... 4H. Moving on... I mentioned that MATCH has a good retention rate ... thing is important to explain, too. The school has lots of ways to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  . 14. Woken up at 2:00 p.m. (new record!) 15. Made .001% progress on my ... , after my final on Thursday, I'm headed to New Hampshire/Canada to ... a bunch of reasons like cutting edge research blah blah blah you all

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  of this bluntness is on cigarette packaging. Somehow, even though you ... all time, primarily because I was in New Hampshire this month on a bike ... Free or Die Hard." "Wait, actually, I think that is the name of the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This year, ring delivery was held at the State Room on the 33rd floor of ... whole new batch of brass rats! Each year, the Brass Rat has a slightly ... 's the real ring  And the designs on both sides Some of the unique

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  't teach.) Many of MIT's teachers are truly excellent, some are good, and ... told me lots of good stuff, stuff that made even me happier about MIT ... can't check on it myself since I don't know which of the several

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... make me a little bit uncomfortable. Now, TBP isn't anything like one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... assignments a week to keep up with. I did not do a very good job of keeping up ... Baal'? No thanks, I’ll be soaring on the wings of eagles, chief

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  complete (such as audio transcription, which is what I worked on). Of course ... not matter. My company had lots of nice perks, like free lunch on ... intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022