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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  through Wednesday, for at least 3 hours a day. This forces you to get into ... experience to get to know your fellow ESGers and to see if teaching is for you ... /Orientation to get a good feel for what works for you But if large class sizes and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  priority for college is to learn how to embrace life.  Life is a series of ... ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to this university since childhood. And now I am about to enter my sophomore

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  saying - they need you to help get them through this process. Here is where it gets counterintuitive for you; to be effective you must say more by ... minority students because they need to get a feel for the campus climate

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  for this semester: 12 units of 6.006 (Introduction to Algorithms ... class for a while, being able to write something and actually see its ... for having a big mouth:[/annotation] This is by far the class I spend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust ... if MIT had an initiation* for us, new freshmen? All my friends have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  for us. But to get to Woody’s, we have to go through All That Is Wrong ... , the opera is over, and the curtain falls. We get to clap hard for all ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  Building, so it’s nice to get out of standard lecture halls and TEAL ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  that my full attentions will turn to a course 8 degree. Hey hey don't get ... designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  was just… there.  during winter break, i went to new york city for a ... of leaving the new place. after all, i had only been away from home for ... difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go ... , studying 2.001 for my final on Tuesday. For that final we get 4 pages of ... the solutions, that way I have something to look at if I get stuck. This

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for ... snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new ... distance, they’re far enough away to ignore for a bit longer. Happy Tuesday

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by ... industry to develop and test the new financial techniques and technologies ... advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups using "playful technologies". By playful technologies, they mean using new ... to get follow-on investments as part of their seed round (up to an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  Orientation and lasts for up to two weeks. - Over those two weeks, you get to ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New House, and I was on my way to Baker. (pause for information) Just a few

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and get ready to catch the organ! [caption id="attachment_45482" align ... apart and prepare for the worst case scenario by constantly thinking about

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The ... hacked for the anniversary of 9/11, the Olympics, the Red Sox, the Lord of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... ’t know what I wanted to write at first when Petey reached out for posts ... were never published. I had wanted to write for years about this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006