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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  the College Night at the Bronx High School of Science. Fellow alum ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one ... I participated in was at Stuyvesant High School. The Stuy college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  job, not a social statement. Among my friends at MIT, announcements of ... it”—because people Like Us don’t actually pursue careers at big banks ... desks. I’m at a desk with relatively reasonable hours (8:45 – 7

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... peace of mind when facing the unknown." At that time in my life, I felt ... angry at all--and was wholly revolutionary. bell hooks wrote with a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design ... seconds gripping the bottle over my face and staring down at my shoes, mumbling. At least, I think I mumbled, but all my classmates wrote "I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water ... that’s near my family. I was accepted into a program at Zhejiang

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

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  represent the United States at the Seventh International Linguistics Olympiad ... universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... , Cornell, and Berkeley. He decided to go to college at M.I.T. in Boston. "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  at http://supernatural.mit.edu/ (as soon as I finish setting up the server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer ... ten weeks, I’ll be doing biological research at the Chulabhorn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... convinced that existing primarily at night has been a bad thing, but most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  battleground at Concord (plus a lot of other really cool places). But the fun ... annual East Campus Roller Coaster and the Big Flipper at Next House. There ... through even a page of this REX schedule without scratching your head or

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

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  student to take at least 8 humanities classes during their time here. Three ... seemed more pressing than a 20 page paper on the Roman Republic. But I also ... adds so much value to your education and to your sanity at this place. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  we were living under the same roof this summer at pika*. You might recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... many more exactly like it at the Coop, and I bet they’re a common sight ... the local U that I take classes at in the morning). These clothes are

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a ... you don't die on every page. Well, maybe somebody dies.. we'll see

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Speech-Language Pathologist and Developmental Scientist at Johns Hopkins ... former research director of the climate policy and research program at the ... human rights and Tribal self-governance. Her role at AIJ involved

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... the franchise."]polling location at Kresge Auditorium ... administration earlier this year on behalf of our international students, defended

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been ... blog post, the one you're reading at the moment? It appears that blogging ... personal, why that's been the case. At this point, I've been able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt. I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  sit in the front page of SnowDays, you can watch the most recent ... comes from how SnowDays draws the snowflake at around one cut per frame, so you're looking at how it's changed over each cut. There's a trick

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  phylogenetics. Put that down on my Wikipedia page [annotation note="jk please don ... &ab_channel=JonBois At first, I was just going to copy Jon's idea ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  dedicated queer space at MIT. They host a lot of events such as open houses ... /sororities/independent living groups), G@MIT, and many more! Check out the LGBT MIT page: https ... next week detailing my first few weeks at MIT. Also, feel free to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018