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• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  I think they're a fun way to take your mind off of something. Here are ... makes opening a new website tab for homework so much more enjoyable ... also just a really good way to remember the people who have helped me in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  , fast forward all the way from 1958 to 2023. How did I end up here on this ... yards morphed into a new plan that would introduce the most iconic unit of measurement to date: the Smoot. This new unit of measurement was the height of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  already talk about on their website. Google is also a Gold Sponsor of the upcoming Career Fair, and will be one of hundreds of companies on campus ... leave pressing questions, comments on the new site/blogs, or whatever else

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each ... my words. The only way to know what it was like to get kicked out of ... New cases in MA: 13 On March 9, Princeton made an announcement

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  year the MIT faculty authorized another new interdisciplinary major ... Science and Engineering. According to its website: Climate change is the most pressing global challenge of our time. Solutions for mitigating and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... -americans face daily. I think there were a lot of really good conversations ... to see my good friend Kylee and play a couple games of pool with her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  turns out, it's not a good idea to accidentally push down on your laptop ... out minor kinks; however, on the second to last day of testing, the car ... /adoptacell.php.” Best of luck to Alix and her teammates! Look out for more on the MIT SEVT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the ... computer game on the 3rd week of class was quite empowering! 17.803 POLITICAL ... class best taken at MIT, as the Institute is on the forefront of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... mental bets on whether or not I succeed. So, out of spite, these are my ... room does. A lot of the time, I'd become apathetic about 3/4 of the way

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  and found a bench to sit on. The number of spelling errors significantly ... typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created ... , lastly (3) I feel like Christina's site is a pretty good representation of ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  found myself in a similar position: lying on the floor of my bathroom ... walk out of it with some good things: a lot of lessons learned, a better ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  that you are spending your time in meaningful ways outside of the ... the number of students whose parents went to MIT. Ej wrote, "I plan on ... take. I thought that the number was 2 but I saw on a website that it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  an off-campus apartment and settling into a new pace of life, an expat ... move last minute on Labor Day. Classes started out fast, but I managed ... acids in 7.012, and adjective endings in German. Staying on top of classes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  meticulously calculating each of my grades to see what I need on each assignment ... 'd really like to get physics out of the way this year. Thus, I need to pass 8 ... again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or ... the money and feel like Smaug on a hoard of gold, only splurging on the ... In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  of ways to do it, visiting, info sessions, websites, etc. She mentions ... accept about 10% or lower of all applicants. That's the bad news. The good ... graduated in 2005, course 7. MIT is located on 150 acres of riverfront in

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  of your major/that don’t have problemsets due every week is a good way ... , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... . Furthermore, I have plenty of reasons to write now. On the one hand, being a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  sororities and potential new members will connect on mutually-shared values ... part of the Panhel community for almost a full year! When we were on ... ’m also ADT’s Director of Internal Relations (~fancy~ way of saying that I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  on the ways that Harry Potter has bucked all of these trends. I got ... time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book ... Harry's lightning bolt scar on the Great Dome. On Confessions of an Aca

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007