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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  Electronics” and held at the Media Lab which has to be the coolest building on ... Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  International Space Station (whenever it flies overhead), and they can draw the ... brackets like normal? Don’t even get me started on all the weird and obscure ... calculations, I can always rely on them to give me the correct answer, even with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  it too quickly can separate its molecules and cause it to become gritty ... flavor with friends and started being the host of truffle parties two years ... consistency. Ms. Allen and Ms. Segall were keeping an eye on the pots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams. Another non-trivial difference between academics at Cambridge and MIT is the ... of thought. Throughout the semester you'll take 1-3 tests + final and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I ... any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  be enjoyable and fun. What once was my most hated subject quickly ... at MIT, but taking 8.021 has showed me that I can and do have the ... clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... was on the now defunct MIT ChemECar team. ChemECar is a competition to ... circuit would break and the car would stop. It was a good idea, but we were

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  approach than just leaving the recommendation form on their chair and running ... . Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one ... letter can then be translated. There are many sources for translation, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  the competition would go on hold and awards would be given based on the ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... out, and we quickly moved outside, packed the cargo into the payload bay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be ... 've ever experienced. They frown upon eating on the subway and jaywalking and ... comes on everything, even pizza and once I ate a burger with a hole in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  if we really hadn’t any on hand — and the local Asian/Hispanic grocery ... , sometimes I crave the ability to Go Home and be off campus and pretend that ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped establish the genre of psychedelic rock and catalyze the Summer of Love, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  [annotation note="usually 45 pounds on its own"]just the bar,[/annotation]and my legs ... standing in front of the rack, and people will notice. You can’t go back ... ’d be getting into, and it paralyzed me. I had gotten through the process

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  am), so I took some quick time to film and explore the lounge ... on the walls, which I liked quite a bit. Since we can't use the vast ... ="64146" /] Since Move-in day on February 13th and before classes started on the 16th

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  on the East Coast. Friday Head near Iowa State University in Ames and ... home of an MIT Alum and parent of an MIT Sophomore. Be sure to check the listing on your MyMIT account for the most up to date information and RSVP

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  can write about the freshman seminar and exploratory class that i ... drained after the midterm last week and how i didn’t study nearly enough for ... cope with my burgeoning doubt and self-hatred.   i close the tab

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  because it was all I had lab experience in and would be the easier route, or ... : Can we all take a moment to appreciate the cheekbones on my Sherlock ... , the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world. And after first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... internalize that MIT students do come from anywhere and everywhere. The cities ... brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  Prep teachers, and I quickly signed up to be a teacher. Throughout the ... ESP out when you're on campus! You'll be surprised at how much you can ... runs out the door* *begins epic journey on bike across campus (~1.5 miles

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008