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• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming ... to the GTL programs, which place MIT students in host families, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  . Get in your college applications, and now what? Well...now's the time to ... --that's one of the best ways to get closer to people and ensure that you keep ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... venture outside to go to the "happy hour" with grad students from 5-7, or ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the ... another teacher. Teacher recommendations should only be written by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  where the boat leaves and returns to. And the MIT Ethiopian ... enjoy meeting people from other schools and getting to know them. At MIT ... universities in the area added to that experience even more. Not to mention, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  Google, to the Kushal Foundation itself that was founded by pioneers of ... finally, working hard to improve and extend the services provided by Kushal ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  by Nina L. ‘19, about her Friday night. Tonight Lujan and I went to Harvard Square to get Dominos. We had decided we needed to get away. The ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a ... poetry, and the reason I took an acting class last semester: to optimize my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team ... explained by watching an example match. But I moved to Nevada after middle

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... which will not be nearly as cool when blogged about after the fact. (By

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  gather in groups on our lawns). Sometimes, we can get so close to the ... time to catch up on that, as by the MIT Law of Conservation of Frosh, I ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There’s this tendency at MIT to start making summer plans all the way back in ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key ... ="115119" /] MAS.s63: Recreating the Past Taught by members of the Future Sketches ... the time. I got to try out new frameworks like p5.js and paper.js and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found ... north of MIT, and here's why: 1. I Kind Of Had To The morning of retreat

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  need to, which is sometimes often. "Poem 133: The Summer Day" by Mary ... 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn ... investment allows me to "share the risk of living a long life" by playing "a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you! On July 1, we posted the blogger application; by the end of ... penguin Kidist A. ’22 of Georgia (the state), who likes to cite tweets by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 't make sense to my young and undisciplined mind. I don't know if it was the fact that the idea of calculus seemed so novel to me or whether our calc

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009