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• 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 / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  ’s often easiest to just toss or cross out the whole page and move on instead ... , where the local minimums are the end of the semester and the local maximums are the middle of IAP and summer. A couple fun items include: an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• 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 / 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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  -long "recitation," where he clarifies and expands upon some of the concepts we were ... . Last Tuesday, on the first day of classes, Jeremy walked into the ... best clothes on the first day of class." Upon hearing this, I instantly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  MIT? I wanted to send an abstract and/or the whole of my Intel paper ... are on the 4th page and the last page to verify that everything is "true ... , "Hey matt i sent my evaluation forms a and b on second of december , the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... our Tests and scores page.
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness ... finals week.  My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the ... form of food that we still call pasta, like chili) for the whole hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  SYCAMORE GROWWWWW????" Q of P - I was the first one there, as anyone who ... hour. And voilà! Sanity restored, in the depths of a stormy week. ... of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  and the train! After we reached the top of Massachusetts, I finally ... ladies around the ages of my mom and aunts, that were taking their mom out ... token of the ride that just added to the journey. Arrival and Walking

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  as difficult as I thought it would be. The first week went fine, and we got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer ... exploded in the oven. Luckily, we took a page from the book of "lifestylist ... students. While I could survive on Anna's Taqueria and get all the major food

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials ... , environmentalist & filmmaker Jennifer Galvin of the Thoreau Foundation, and Bina ... . One of the most fun and surprisingly useful materials I used were bread

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  the dorms and living groups at MIT consist of people from all four years ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  great the first semester and did average around that second semester. so ... institution. the university that is on the lips and minds of so many people ... assortment of extracurriculars and interests under my belt, but i think the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  (currently 1 GB), ability to access MIT-only secure web pages, and, of course ... on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  Prof. Michael Yaffe. Three professors co-teach the class and Yaffe taught for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1 ... pages of very colorful notes and 9 boards filled with pretty picture of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006