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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  morning, and strolls through rows of dark offices. And there are the "crust ... after the first week, half of the freshman class has been romantically ... schoolwork with all of the fun things that you feel obligated to run off and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  the colleges and potential employers. Talk of who is the top-first is ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... , and then picks a subset of those to review for the final examination. As

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  Pistol this quarter, and I'm also enjoying it. :) For most of the first ... correction!) I took Sailing the first quarter and learned how to set up and ... your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  for the first time, and made a gazillion horrible uneven diagonal cuts ... : we were going to start the first UK regional, and win the Chairman ... of my best friends on the Robotics team were from "that school", and

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

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  of reading and a lot of internet. I read the MIT website, I read the Newsweek college guide books, and I read all sorts of websites that had neat ... needed to be at MIT. Matt McGann was the host of the info session and he

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... biggest fan of Charlie Brown in the world, and will nerd out about ... many hours of discussion and back-and-forth, we've selected seven new

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium, signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... Pennsylvania, and then the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1862. The town

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone ... accomplishment at having completed one of the most difficult and rewarding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down ... formation of the United States - for three hours every week and pore through

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the day GDPR was implemented, and in one of my classes we discussed the implications of the legislation and the precedent it set for the global tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me ... the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... , applications, and more. Behold: an overview of the bajillion words that I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  passageway between buildings 3 and 10."]complex of rooms along the Infinite ... [/annotation] —  and other events, once they resume —  on the first floor. We are ... location of the MIT Museum[/annotation] and [annotation note='Which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... and personal development of first generation students at MIT. MIT's 17
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  and compacting all the fun parts of a year at MIT into three days ... (a great lecturer, and sort of the patron saint of genomics), mistaking ... official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  , finals...), and several doses of caffeine lie between me and that fateful ... wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the ... equally mature acts of closure and resolution. Then I left the city I grew ... : the first week of orientation is (almost) dedicated to REX, or Residence

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  . Taking junk off of my bed at night and throwing it on the floor is nothing ... week after week, the cleaning staff will eventually get tired and stop ... table the other day and Zach '08 arbitrary declared, "Meara ['09], you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  .670 course website): The first day of class was like Christmas and Hanukah and ... of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering ... . We had a lot of help from the professors, undergraduate assistants, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  Kerberos and AFS. Kerberos, named after the three-headed dog guard of Hades ... sets of users and servers. The normal realm here on campus is the ATHENA ... cells and realms, there's the lesser known Zone Cell, made up of three

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  , appealed to the journalist side of me). And that's why I'm really, really ... (cats courtesy of my friend Alison) The cats are simultaneously dark and ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012