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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  outreach programs include BoSTEM (a summer STEM program for underrepresented minorities), dynaMIT (a summer STEM program for low-income students), and ... leadership to high schoolers). Like CodeIt, students who serve as mentors for

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

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  I was an interviewer myself for many years before leading the Educational Council but think it would be helpful for you to hear

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  one activity, however, that we hope you will join us for: MIT Quest ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this ... -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  [annotation note="i just googled this and found out i’ve been calling it the WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a ... stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... initiatives (misti) runs global travel experiences for MIT. they’re the primary hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always ... cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... this very pretty campus. It may not be Google, but we still had a full

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... stuff", but as a cursory Google Scholar search proves, he's been involved

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was ... to examine for a long time, and photograph. Hong Kong After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... Twitter for a few minutes. It is senior year, and I have gotten the art of ... it is one of three classes I am signed up for which can satisfy my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... mind. Videos, for example, are helpful, but researchers have determined

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students ... experience by asking for more leadership opportunities and establishing a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... ). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  yearlong membership for $45! it's pretty worth it if you don't have your own ... annual bike auction where you can get decent bikes for prices comparable or ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  , or tune in for Google Hangout sessions, or just struggle through the ... interest. As a result, I have not blogged for eternity. One day, I may ... past. But for now, in dreadfully uncreative bullet form, I’ll highlight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  leads the vision for the production. During the initial prod meetings, I had to advocate my vision for the play and inspire the other designers ... to life? Google images are incredibly useful as an initial starting

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  teaching. All it seems to mean is that class sizes for the advanced seminars ... for Undergraduates) SENIOR FALL 8.033 (Relativity) 8.287 (Astronomy Lab ... 't know of a better expression for this than "experimental physics boot camp

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012