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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  , and we're proud of to be a little offbeat. Around here, "nerd" isn't an ... College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ridiculous stereotypes about MIT and MIT students. I'm a little touchy about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April:

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  how to learn I'm the kind of person that can't learn things on my own ... finding motivation and initiative to learn things on my own, which might ... and anxieties with being in computer science. A lot of it boiled down to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel ... or something, not with any help of something mystical. Obviously this ... commenting on how fantastic you are, Mr. Gaiman, and your books really speak to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  sweat and determination. I was lucky to still be alive. Several of my ... , ultimate frisbee, water polo, track and field, tug of war, and my personal ... of being in the Navy, when push comes to shove I knew that the guys on

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  wonderful and rewarding career, is not really a nine-to-five type of job ... attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from ... the duals portion of his competition, and would have won first in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  from your rank list because if you do not match with any school on ... , Randolph, MA 02368. Make sure your full name and date of birth are included ... .O. Box 404, Randolph, MA 02368. Make sure your full name and date of birth

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  the comments! And tell me some of the classes on that list that look ... taking some of these classes in the future, whether on OCW or at MIT ... of time on it though." "Personal answer is definitely 11.011 or 6

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator ... place, full of wonderful people, and everyone should visit before ... , technical rules of mechanics, heat, and motion apply, but only after we

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip ... verb in any language to act as the deliberate version of [annotation note ... ."[/annotation] In my head, it's kind of a mash up of escuchar and mirar. You can give

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  . We can all leave at any time we please, move on with our lives, and be ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... be the presidents of clubs, play sports, and sleep. Everyone hits the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  : [annotation note='if any of you are reading of this you all are wonderful and i ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of ... actually lived on the same floor that I did in Next. And so began my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  in Total # of Lines/# of Times Spoken and Total # of Words. On one hand ... tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... pieces of data reveal about the characters and their relationships, if it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  past year, because he’s met a lot of interesting and thoughtful people ... to welcome and onboard the incoming class of 2027. you feel ... schoolwork between 9am-5pm on tuesdays and thursdays, and how that’s the most

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... over a longer period of time. Instead, I tend to lean on a series of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  different, and each of us has a different capacity for extracurriculars ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes ... the gym, or the minutes of sleep i was previously getting between 1 and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... "]snow[/annotation] on my birthday, and I’m glad to be spending this one [annotation note ... arrived and was consumed with great enjoyment. Enjoy this picture of my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  called Formal Halls, and of course attended these huge celebrations at the ... ), each with their own colors and crest, honestly reminded me of Harry ... derived any joy from: 2.008, AKA yo-yos! Another part of the problem was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  than any roller coaster you’ve ever been on. On top of that, last spring ... friend and as a friend of other ROTC members. Something interesting I ... (obviously, we’re a little biased), and we get a lot of questions about the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015