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• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some ... take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  Fellows." Each participating university also selects a team of 3 students to represent the university; schools are ranked according to the sum of the ranks ... that lead to success in high school math competitions carry over to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  's special issue on stress is anything to go by. (If you haven't read it yet ... to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  by the OWC courses, I helped to adapt graduate-level econ subjects to ... to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  guess i'll have to start spelling jen with two n's. Posted by: jen(n) '11 ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to ... with a support organization for HIV-positive individuals. She plans to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... -3 friend requests per week from prefrosh. To this date, I have accepted

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... to study right? So what I've learned is that you can only read a book ... my brain went to mush when I think I'd attempted my fourth read of the

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in ... single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... painful process known as "moving out." At MIT, we are lucky enough to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My name is Mollie Burgoon. I live in Pickerington, Ohio. I go to Peace U

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... are different options you can follow to study multiple fields. For two

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  experience justice by enumerating the acts who performed, but I'll hint at them ... , because it was. If you're kind of grossed out by that, though, join the MIT Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... understood that I learned how to answer them at some point in the past but my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  had to go see it and make funny faces at her in the booth and show my ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  Mountain View to make weather.com boring for me. I used to think it'd be sooo ... arrival at Moffett Field, CA next to the small city of Mountain View. To ... to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  .) The professor said he was willing to make an exception but that the ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  make space for. I go to a graduate-level graph theory class that is not ... 't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021