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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  , there can be multiple ways to get to the same point, and you have to be ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting ... . Basically, we’re trying to push the upper limits of size on automated

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... four years here and I love MIT to death. On the other hand, no school ... dig up some tears is due to the fact that I'll be living on the MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  that most people never get to the good stuff! Most of what gets taught in ... by no means all!) natural phenomena occur due to the accumulation of a ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google News, the story has been picked up by at least 67 news organizations ... ) -- Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  , helpful things to guests. As I walked by the security tent at the foot of ... of the world", but really, it was more akin to, "Ponchos". We awoke to ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a ... other paths to learn enough to get the progress from that eighth path; the ... less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  tripping over each other to get onto the page. Sometimes it is hard because ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the ...  is my personal guide to thinking about writing. The theoretical foundation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  all the way up to Boston. You'll still get in great shape, you'll still ... around the woods in Hopkinton at 6 AM trying to sneak by cops. If you ... armed guards, waited for the second wave of runners to come by, and hopped

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  scientist. At least the flask was empty, though... (3) 9.01 - Intro to ... is by Konrad Lorenz on the behavior of jackdaws. I know that sounds dry ... lively that I can't help but get excited about the subject material. This

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  while. I love the style of videos she produces, so getting to play around ... my time off MIT campus and am only 3 units above the credit cutoff to ... clubs and responsibilities so that I have the energy to dip my toes into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play ... , blinking into the mid-afternoon sunshine, trying to recall how I got here ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... etc. We returned from the museum and I went back to the dorm to get my ... , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... Monday's off-day to go see Dr. Glen Fleisig and the staff at ASMI in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the ... The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  professor in a meeting with someone  Meanwhile, get spotted by the same grad ... he is too busy Try to stop by the third professor’s office because he ... the following week Go to the meeting and get very excited about this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... 's definitely not hard to get an internship for the summer. First, there are ... stay on campus for the summer, so it's extremely easy to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  "I'll just get by this semester and be more organized next semester ... way to track my spending. I opened an account with the MIT Federal ... I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  get to places. I'm also pretty excited to see all the places I never got ... by a player who used data from Google Earth to generate Minecraft ... . How You Can Get Involved As of now, the server is restricted to the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This ... . It was my introduction to writing that wasn’t the five paragraph ... this class a fun way to do so. Finally, this class seemed like the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... , but that doesn't do any justice to the individual ups and downs I've been through this past year. So instead, I'm going to start at the very

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010