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• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  : I'm trying to get into shape for the socially distanced half marathon ... I get to mentor the four very lovely freshmen who live here in person ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  time with my brothers by playing the games we always used to play. We ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... -minute trek to campus. I met up with them at the Student Center - my mom, my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  tour guide) for this statistic So, if you get the chance to be around ... The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  succession, her Facebook status was updated, Google-stalking was initiated, and ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who was suitably impressed by our vanilla-scented plug-in air freshener

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... for technical companies. I later learned that's not the case at all (by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need another copy of the evaluation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  . By a machine, I mean my television. Oh, the movies I've missed since I ... mentioned. "I have a fourteen-page paper on the development on 16th century ... to go to the museum instead and check out the hot docents?" The one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... , because he always has some story to tell about every corner of the city ... the structure of this class; reading an entire 200-350 page book per

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  lucky enough to get onto a team. We teamed up with the RP lab (Rapid ... commotion from down the hall. Needless to say, we were stricken with awe by ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on ... an international student, do I have to take the TOEFL? A. No, we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  *much* I cross out items, especially when compared to the way Danny ... two-weeks of the year or so. Every year, I try to make more use of my ... into the swing of the semester, I find myself needing to look at my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... program. You get used to the comfortable college “monoculture.” At MIT ... “school bus” for the working class. And it’s odd to realize that I am part

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  to shed the weight of psychological debris created, most notably, by ... , the same night that I had these three things to finish. On shift, I get ... , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ... was explaining why, because the human eye is innately attracted to ... a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware ... effectively useless. So today I decided to remove the duct tape for awhile

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  a number of events and fundraisers on campus to raise the $65,000 we ... promise!) The businesses that donated prizes to this year’s date auction ... happy, healthy family that hasn’t been affected by cancer. The kids I meet

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  breakfast and lunch each Saturday. I also had the opportunity to tour Google ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been ... pursued more advanced coding. Throughout the semester, my goal was to help

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  ” by Worthikids. I’m on the rise.  As we prepared to run over the next ... journals in school, I would scribble all over the first page to break any ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  out The Akamai Story: From Theory to Practice by Tom Leighton. Akamai ... My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... on the MIT home page under Education — click on "video"). This primary

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007