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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  means of capitalism. According to a poll commissioned by the American ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a ... on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  disappointed by the Artemis Fowl movie [annotation note="still mad about this. I ... projects"] The months flew by. I participated in an entrepreneurship ... revisited my MG novel again, it wasn’t the story I wanted to tell anymore. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  United States and the former head of Google[x]. It's been called MIT's most ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... had the gumption and self-reliance to strike out as their own independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I ... newspaper. Sam and Mitra and Mollie, the earliest bloggers, were MIT to me ... reason behind my decision to come here was the people: the people I'd met

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your ... Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... during Christmas. We got to stay near a beach, and watched the waves pound

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend. You can read about the history, which was chronicled by Matt, here, He

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  schools.  If you've got the will, it's comparatively easy to get a research ... . But how do you get a UROP?  A good first step is to look at the UROP ... isn't the most optimal way to get a UROP, because these are the hardest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  fish. Next time, though. By then, it was getting close to 2 in the ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat ... that nobody read the last page of my test booklet closely enough to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  fill up by January and send it back to Art House Co-op, the organization ... the transition back to twin size in September though – heh. * Drowned ... soccer or the patience to watch it, but seeing a goal finally being made

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but ... ’t even go to the store to pick something up. I’ll admit I’m no less guilty ... full-page ad in The Tech “apologizing” for the additional burden caused

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the ... the years, I've tried a lot of remedies to ease the pain. Here is how they've worked for me: Ice. I figured I could use ice to numb the pain

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  in the comments we didn't get to answer (watch the webcast for the ones ... pretty common. I've been trying to encourage the freshmen to get 7+ hours ... some responses to the backlog of queries by applicants to class of 2022

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  schedule for next year to account for those goals, which fell by the wayside ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  there and look at everything you pass by. And you can get to downtown ... Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  Rather than working on the 12-page paper on green fluorescent protein that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... 's "America" choreography by Jawas, one moment in "Act V: The Empire Strikes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  at the front seat Ninjas. Somehow, I didn’t get hit too much. I had to ... . And if you ever want to a chuckle, find a way to get the list of 101 ... Caesar). I’ll try to blog more about the classes as the semester goes by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time ... the huge group of people by the theatre in order to hail one, but we ... perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008