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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  one of the coolest project classes at MIT. I'll be sure to make a post ... If I had to explain what Junior year's been like so far.... I'd say ... anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... return to/arrive on campus, you should consider getting a bike. it's so ... never thought i needed to bike anywhere, but y'all, i was wrong. SO wrong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around this) I have already completed every requirement to graduate (except ... to document, especially because I am lucky to have more

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  simple, right? Well, designing this lab was a marathon. We wanted to make ... the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can ... to handle, there's no shame in distracting yourself with things to do ... ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  brought by the giant Traags to the Traags' home planet, where they are kept ... by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard ... to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... embarrassingly MIT? we're lucky to have some people share their good news. there

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  cousin, Nadia, in math over the internet. By the end of 2006, more ... fund analyst to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  , so they're going to ticket the event by invitation only with a ... as best as we can to find a venue that's the appropriate size. Also, by ... posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  recommend you do this now to make sure everything works for you. Strange ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are living in the United States. Since last March, MIT has offered housing to ... planning for the fall term had been built around the premise that, due to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  , curated by the bloggers, to provide motivational music for you, dear reader ... . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a previous blog post: the days go by slowly but the weeks speed by. here are ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  creativity of its student body - the more likely the applicant will be to make ... responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others as potential MIT '11s gear up to begin the admissions process. Below is

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... narrow victory for Lowell. (Photo credit to Eric Schmiedl '09) Yes, that ... by Senior Haus. It gets its name because it involves roasting a steer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  Monday Series guided by Amy McCreath of LEM (Lutheran Episcopal Ministry) and hosted by LBGT@MIT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender at MIT ... attainment of inner peace necessary! Dress comfortably. I went to this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... send you an email in early December asking you how you would like to proceed: You may use your QuestBridge application to apply through Early
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are ... ) videos prepared by the residents of each dorm. Many also got to see some of ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  time getting the hang of simple things that were easy to make and tasted ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022