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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  a leadership summit in New York (hosted by Google). More about that ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... ) p-sets, I had to stop into the newly-redesigned Cafe Four for some ... coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But ... you having to get up. You forget that this is an institute of world

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  looking for new friends to make. DropBox, Facebook, Google, Apple, Space ... the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  people around New England were set up that allowed hundreds of people to ... philosophy behind cloud computing. Cloud computing is the means by which data ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... closest taxonomic approximations I could get for each mascot. Depending on ... Elephantidae and Canis lupus for some reason, so I had to wedge Tufts University

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  program and to visit family, Boston/California for my UROP, and Ethiopia for ... say hi to my grandmother.   October Back to MIT for the fall ... to the new Autodesk BUILD incubator in Boston that just opened this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... he agreed to do it. I stand by the truth of that claim. He might not 😆 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  positioned them on stage. According to the program, they were accompanied by ... better place." That's still a big part of her mission - to get kids ... day." It's a new era for MIT. And a very exciting one. Anyway, that

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... what’s *really* important to me. For example, I was invited to join the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... means I don't have to take the FEE, but do I still get 9 unrestricted ... anywhere (to my knowledge), which makes me sad. Yes, you get 9 units of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... need to get that happiness barometer up. The best part is walking the ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  going to get canceled for the almost two years I had it planned, and the ... today to confirm that I have lost my powers. MIT is infamous for humbling ... the weekend was to cram. Except I didn't (oops!). I studied for a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  I’m glad to be getting the foundational knowledge needed for some ... help, in addition to regular traditional office hours that are meant for ... lab comes from your checkoff, which you can complete by going to an open

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  and fast-paced-ness and wild stories we’ll tell for years to come. What ... time it takes to thaw another set of cells for new experiments. Changing ... experiences growing this cilantro and apply it to care for yourself in the same

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  -up to my first post about trying new things, and looking for adventure ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... completely new - seemed to last forever, but once I settled into a rhythm days

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... things.  Useful bit of Google-fu: searching for "title of book filetype:pdf" (without the quotes) limits results to PDF files.  For example: hyperloop

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  first few weeks went by really fast and now that work's been piling up ... different colleges and are taking different classes, it's nice to have get ... to come to Caius College for a formal next week. So stay tune. I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some ... because of delays caused by these events. We try to be as flexible as ... same criteria to evaluate applications for both EA and RA. Take the time

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017