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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  you should never get that vocal or intrusive, but you do have to learn a ... following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a ... ) Do you agree that MIT courses are synonymous to downloading the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  they were doing. The result would be a mosaic of diverse happenings at ... students would rather do calculus than succumb to the byproducts of rampant ... Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  what people would expect. So there’s kind of a split: do we go forward ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version. There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  , but that’s a different story, a different time). The most I can do is ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes- khaki shorts and a lion-face-print top, since it’s a warm spring day and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... /fail UROP or as a graded UROP. But, note that if you are doing a Course 6 or ... A reminder: Fall 2005 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... do after graduating, like: going through the same evidence over and ... until i think about whether i'm doing it. i'm reminded of this saying in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  themselves to do things that bring you joy and relaxation. Go outside! Bake a ... that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... ’ve never felt so much joy from a season, a mere period of time defined by

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... we learned all that by doing it. There was a great emphasis on reaching ... History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  stressed me out a bit. See, I was gonna write a musical programing language. "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing a parser and was like, "Aww crap. This is harder then I thought," so a

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  MIT is a melting pot of all sorts of people from different races ... exams and potentially life-altering decisions like declaring a major, it ... weeks, the fact that such a renowned place as MIT decided to fling open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During ... wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program ... past students of RSM are now studying. I've never been in a program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one ... parents a call.  But sometimes, you'll need more resources than those.  You

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  in my two and a half years of doing Model UN in high school - to help ... seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at the Institute. More importantly, in ways, it's a bit of an art, too

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... happens is a new store opening up or a car crashing into a building every ... many colleges, actual exciting things happen. The concept of a flash mob

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... then I would have just looked like a dumb freshman who wished her

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to ... your security blanket there. So I became a legal adult a few months ago ... we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  was. You can check out the Boston running map here, or go and do a ... 've run fifteen miles and walked about ten, so I'm just a little bit burned ... forgot where it was entirely. Next time, I'll get a picture and blog it. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  about doing a ton of "science-oriented" extracurricular activites just to ... Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master ... a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005