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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  dorkiest parts of myself, I'll say this: simply living at MIT is a huge ... , but I was so absolutely blown away by the MIT Musical Theater Guild

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT ... , Tom Stoppard and his contemporaries. One of my favorite classes at MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  “Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them” –…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  On Tortillas and Community An update from a year and a half ago.

  

  her own path at MIT. This, my friends, this is what makes Cambridge, MA

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  2900 (we got 2900!) kids are traveling to MIT from all around the country, just to hear MIT students teach about subjects they love. Before I start ... game (which MIT has won, by the way.) She's a Middle East Studies major

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that memo. In all…

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  My typical summer weekday runs as follows: 5 AM: Beep-beep-beep-beep – my alarm goes off, I look out my window, and I realize that once again, I’m awake before the…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  pretty much every teaching award available at MIT. He gets up at 6am ... Introduction to Cosmology class for High School kids through MIT's Educational ... transformed. Schedule the Intramural Ultimate Frisbee season MIT has a healthy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank ... and here: And as an MIT student, I couldn't resist this: My second

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . It has a bunch of sexy features. They have good support and employ MIT ... in true MIT style. Thanks for continuing the conversation.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  . All too often students are lauded for being admitted to places like MIT ... accomplished grandson was not admitted to MIT, the grandson recently earned dual

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  [By Doug Sanchez '14] After taking 2.97 (Design for People) I changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was immediately hooked after watching the…

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  , I need familiarity. At that moment, the novelty of college and MIT ... there was no one at MIT that I felt comfortable calling. I sense some ... fashioned my own new little MIT world, but had thrown so much energy into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  with a fellow MIT student, Alessondra, I get to visit some of the middle

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  best it can be. At MIT, I have heard over and over again that students ... rubble back together. There is MIT Mental Health, there are GRTs (Graduate ... professors during office hours…the list goes on and on and on. MIT takes care

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: “My advice to a high school student interested in science as a career would be to forget all the stuff they tell you in the textbooks about the answers.…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  One clear Thursday night long ago I was playing ultimate frisbee on the Kresge Oval with some friends. As we ran around, we could hear music over our footsteps and…

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009