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• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... sophomore year, she developed a strong interest in international development ... gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... "yay" around my house after I had opened the web page notifying me that I ... credited. In fact, it's a rather well-known phrase here: MIT is like drinking

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  print version of the story and associated web updates); we produced a ... During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 – Engineering Leadership. It’s a short class required by the GEL program, and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  callback I got was for a position running web communications at MIT ... enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... . That something is match. We talk a lot about match here at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

    I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  pistol team is on its way to West Point in New York for a shooting competition! Yes, that's right, MIT has a pistol team, and a good one at that ... , beating out Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and a slew of other teams. Geeks with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  line is a one-inch-wide nylon or polyester webbing that wobbles like ... enthusiasm stays with you forever. To dance, you must find a balance within yourself." He had quite a point. Calling MIT freshmen "enthusiastic" was

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  What To Bring To MIT Next Fall? If you're planning on having a bike, make sure to bring a good bike lock. Maybe four. I don't actually know if it's been stolen - I have a tendency to...forget where I leave things. Like my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  " course number. Hey - now you have a major on WebSIS! (online advising ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... 't you guys a tech school? What are you doing here?!" Ahem. Engineers can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... ." "Wow, you must be getting a 5.0 this term!" FALSE. HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  relevant question... if I want to send a web link as supplemental material ... send a web link to [email protected] - don't forget to include your full ... CollegeBoard send them to us, but for a definitive answer you should call

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  't even feel like work. I've also been working on my other two jobs, a web ... This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  'm sitting here in a corporate coffee shop chain, typing on my laptop, Cynthia A Harris - Outlook Web App open in the background. watching ... "]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I've started my class. If you're a mechanical engineer, attend MIT, and are a sophomore, IAP means only one thing: 2.670, a class called "Mechanical

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  students that means sweaty palms, quickened paces, and anxiety that WebMD can ... towel) You see, MIT is a great many wonderful things, and it's the place I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That ... always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  now it's 12:45AM. I haven't done a "what am I taking this semester" post in a while, because I think I jinxed sophomore fall last time. I ... haven't felt so apprehensive about. It's mostly because I have a lot more

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  This summer was a summer of many firsts. First time actually living ... . First time booking all my doctor’s appointments. This summer was a summer of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021