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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal ... unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... blogging not being a real job, some people are professional bloggers.  And

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... friendship by reducing her life to a sinusoidal function. Proof of Why Katelyn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate ... them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these princesses a few hours later. So this will be my last MITblog entry from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house (during CPW, if you stay in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science. Often, professors just assume undergrads know what a typical career path ... majoring in biology." (That's actually a verbatim quote. Imagine it in a cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... lost' question, which offers a choice between two public-health programs ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  Doctor Russ. Lieutenant Colonel Russ Lachance, a grad student I ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  undergraduate student that works with MIT faculty to provide support and act as a resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the ... go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days ... else’s head. You get to experience what they experience–the fear during a ... experiences, though. It means you get to be that person for a little bit. You

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  my next degree and had a sensational time. Now, many years later, we revisit rejection with a renewed lens. Professional writers and performers ... even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity ... students with a team-based product development experience. Students will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  , taught by Professor Vivek Bald. Learning to make videos was a goal of mine for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage ... .  The class is structured as a workshop where the majority of the semester

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... student group run for more than a few years, then? one possibility is that ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is ... about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you ... , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• 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…

  

  next week, so stay tuned. I'm just popping my tired head up for a moment ... was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... , there has been a special focus on the substance and purpose of the General

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned--you should always have a backup ... anything lined up. I cursed myself for wandering through Career Fair with a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018