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• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  imagining a sample day at my future college. At that point in time, I had no ... be fair, no one could have seen anything this damn year threw at us coming.  Starting this semester at the internationally acclaimed Zoom

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . But the break felt so short, and once I was back at MIT, I was in an ... Monday exam[/annotation]at the end of fall semester, and I stayed at home ... in exactly whichever way I desired at exactly any moment. It. Was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  , Catherine D'Ignazio, is even a professor at MIT! Oh god I'm old.  Earlier ... about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i didn’t blog! at all!!   now, as i reflect on the past month, i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the ... nothing but fulfilling shopped with my roommates at the Prudential Center

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  at sipb that's working on the new ... bible of all the classes offered at MIT in the fall. personally, i've got ... schedules, so in short is only pretty to look at and honestly doesn't even

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  don’t say them at all. Impulse purchases = a bulging closet but no ... whether or not to wash my hair at night (believe it or not, I’ve once ... goes on. Solution: Arrive at least 30 extra minutes before you think you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  brains are really interesting, or at least that's what mine thinks. 7 ... been that it starts at 9:30 am. 7.49: Developmental Neurobiology ... two 20-minute presentations on recent papers from the field at the end

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  on the monitors. That’s one of the problems the startup I’m working at ... the gateways. I’ve been at the company for three weeks now, and every ... , or to easily be able to make contributions of my own. The culture at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  ’ve got mixed emotions. You can see college peeking at you from around the ... ’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit ... -way through with senior year. You’re at the point where application deadlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on ... . Yeah! Advance mankind! However, then, in my case at least, I asked myself ... the problem. I emailed at least five professors with research ranging

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi ... commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are ... type. The door is at the optimal angle between slightly ajar and fully

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... sometimes beyond. We are as American as the flag on the Moon. At the same ... students to study at MIT, including the many Chinese students who found a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  “Colors”. There were many, many MIT students at the international terminal ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at ... Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  stared at our soaking wet clothes. We shared stories about ourselves on the ... you might expect a typical freshman to take at MIT, in subjective order ... /theory/proof based. I studied for the 18.02 ASE and thought I had a good shot at

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... percentage of foreign students than Tech." At the time, one out of every 15 ... undergraduates at MIT were international. My summer research, however, did not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At ... ; A fountain at the entrance of the Watergate building, my first day at

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  had a shadow today and Lujan met me at Building 26 and we talked to her ... in Lujan’s room at EC. His roommate moved out to another dorm so he has ... there because we were too cold. “Do people eat at Domino’s?” Eric mused

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  , I spent three weeks at nerd camp. I was what multiple exes have ... listened and watched as this happened, amazed at how well a single song had ... weren't the only oddball around anymore. This happened at least three

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... taking the exam at 1pm. I went through all the problems, thinking hard ... ever had before" and "still failing". At least I did better than on my 14

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  stare at all the flakes falling from the sky, and it will feel like magic ... in places, some of you have plans for gap years or work or a year at ... --the bottom line is, soon you will be leaving home. At the very least, you will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015