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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  he cancelled the first lecture of the semester with a 2AM email. Why ... first guest of the semester was John Reed, the outgoing Chair of the MIT ... difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  whole piece. I liked this a lot because I always hated the harsh glare of ... from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year ... the spiritual opposite of summer - instead of escaping, it's about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  loading docks. 2. v the act of finding cruft and hoarding it 3. n MIT ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... .03, 8.02, and a hass class." hosed: adj the state of being exhausted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  instructions sitting in front of rows and rows of chairs. We (the interns) were ... whole day -- mostly, we were going through an introduction to the company ... pictures. I imagine most of my pictures for the rest of the summer will be of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  warmth. The world felt anew, like we were in the first episode of a new ... skyline, it too set on our trip as a whole. We basked in the beauty of that ... going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  ("Why the exponential growth? Learning coding consists of two parts. 1) concepts. 2) syntax. With your first language, you have to learn the concepts of coding. What coding is, how you literally have to tell the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical ... language besides English I turned to one of the better suited places to do

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  head, of course.  In the first month or so of 2.00b we learned a lot ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was ... . It's been a whole lot of Christmas since I last wrote about Toy Product

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  . With the help of hot chocolate, I got to Friday, finished my first week ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... any time to appreciate it all before I plunged deep into the pits of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  video, analyzes the hell out of it" - Media Lab researcher Deb Roy tracks ... how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers ... brain be put to better use than a repository of the Ruff Ryders Anthem

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  with a lot of family issues, i was living alone for the first time, and i ... fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  I’d been getting, I got a cold from the first to third week of October ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started ... realizing that the first song is LITERALLY describing how we feel. Danny

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  experience. My first year of grad school, I left the Church and the Addir ... for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... Employer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology As a consequence of my ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start ... , and I am so grateful for the opportunities! Preservation of the Frosh

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  designated stop, after the doors open and let on all of the passengers ... knew it, Yuki and I were at the end of the Red Line and were greeted by the sight of transit police standing on the platform. We got out of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are knitting aficionados. Did you know that the bunny hat I'm wearing above was ... letter at the end of this week. Best Regards Birgit Heil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  premise of the first one was literally just "mom said we have to get rid of ... these chances to meet the Class of '24—they're wonderful and hilarious and ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  feel like shots at the moon! none of this ambition existed in the first ... having these problems, yet i'm screaming in front of the whole world about ... weekend, i knew i'd spend a lot of time on the hunt, and i was really

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020