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• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  your four-year-old cousin to study. (Seriously, Mom; isn't it a little ... to that first AP introductory meeting as a scrawny rolling-backpack-wielding sophomore. (That WAS a long time ago, wasn't it? You're free to imagine me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a ... disclaimer now that I'm a spoiled first grandchild and thus, I did go off to ... aren't all nice) - Parts can be a nuisance to replace Now to my own

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake ... resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it ... cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... .e., it's her job to make sure that Bitcoin and related technologies help make the world a more, rather than less, fair and equitable place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  exposure to a wet lab (a lab that makes use of chemical solvents. Examples of ... things that make the digits on your calculator) to a plastic. 2: Make the ... to make a determination of how much energy would be absorbed by a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people ... then plan to form a pod with these people in the spring ... be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  didn’t have enough Legos to make satellites on its own. Some teams had a ... that every team had to make at least one negotiation before completing a ... to any other team, it could make a deal with only two predetermined

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  you have to make a decision about a major. So you have plenty of time ... make a point to get in touch with them, and take advantage of the ... seems to have become a thing of the past, even though site traffic hasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the Deshpande Center?

  researchers to make a difference in the world by developing innovative technologies in the lab and bringing them to the marketplace in the form of ... resources to help MIT faculty and students move their ideas from the lab to
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call ... to sacrifice a few other things to get there) or manage to finish the ... philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  going to MIT is that you have a long weekend nearly every month. Last ... a bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwich here (they actually make it for you, a la sub sandwich shop) on my way to the T. Descending the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos ... I've been pretty busy lately doing stuff like this a little of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar ... a reasonable fraction of the 700+ events to attend? I was definitely ... be helpful to post a Mini-Guide to CPW for your final hours of prep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  makes me so happy! it was weird to be a floor chair for this event when ... three times a week to dance with their hiphop team! it was a good ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I ... was as good a time as any to cast off my noobishness.  I'm taking Intro to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . She makes a point of ordering an large pepperoni pizza to take home with ... had dressed in full zombie regalia as a tribute to "Army of Darkness ... Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  world would come to a screeching halt. I think of all this tonight ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse ... is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  classes to plan what you want to take each semester. Pictures make more ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... in the area of Service Design. (Basically, figuring out how to make ... microwave clock to realize that I got up a whole hour early, so I went back to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... and not, as every tour guide everywhere ever has lied to you, because a ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018