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• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... you crazy? There's no good time to get sick!" But there really is. Allow ... my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  to take his class so bad) Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (I read ... , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three ... ; please check with the Educational Council office by writing to interview ... 'm an applicant from Indonesia. If I had decided to send my application by

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  chance to get settled in. :) By the way, I've discovered that if you read ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to get there) Margaret ’23- Very honest list here: 1. Sit for a while by a ... available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  -engineer my focus. I'm starting to get scared of giving up — not tonight, nor ... . To come home with stories behind me. I also, by the way, have a ... couldn’t get gelato until I submitted to some number of agents. And I did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties ... rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  smarter. By not self-advocating. He was reluctant to ask for help. By ... looks for ways to get back on the horse. She tends to learn as much from ... future. By being willing to change in order to be successful. Never will

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  .A.S.T.'s many projects. Hopefully we'll get a student from the class to guest blog ... hopefully we'll get someone to cover it for ARTalk. SIMMONS ARTS INFUSION: I ... is obscenely large, but I am trying to make good use of it by cooking

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  bogged down by this, we will have to grant the existence of some morally ... bound to the other rail in the train variant could plausibly attack (1) by ... threat to their lives, and that you knowingly introduce this threat by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done ... , discarded my plans to see the city. I wanted to get inside. My sense of safety ... myself by making things up. I sat a while. I called my mother. I began to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... to Chinatown. He proceeded to wake me up by blasting loud, traditional Chinese music from his phone and get our other friends to almost drag me out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Today was dominated by the Meet The Bloggers Party - it was SO great to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... -style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  generated by ChatGPT (for example) tends to be fairly generic and plain ... may want to go into more detail by exploring apps like ChatGPT in class ... -ended queries similar to those typically offered by instructors, responds

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  discussions, and is less likely to feel that she recieves due credit for her ... they are likely to hold differing views when they leave. Women respect ... 's. Women are more likely to continue to medical school. Women more strongly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  -acclaimed International House. < more shameless plug> Video bought to you by yours ... Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get ... little while. But don't worry! You get to squat under one of those spigot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009