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• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... tell you something….college was hard for people like me- the first

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  related to technology, who all descend on Las Vegas the first week of every ... emailed in the first assignment while in Vegas. I moved out of my dorm into ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the ... the video onto social media with a list of new nominees and a link back

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  think it’s the whole package. The highlights of our trip must be the ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... much. Was it the unusual calmness of the bustling city of Bath that you

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... and personal development of first generation students at MIT. MIT's 17
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  you don’t like MIT… I think you’re on the wrong page. Maybe you ... .  Plus, that ridiculous hood does a great job of keeping the snow and wind ... . The basketball team had our first practice after break on the 27th, so

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  ended, they took a bunch of the frosh out for their first visit, and i ... limits, a ghost wandering the halls of First East. But the long weekend ... my first actual dome picture, if you don't count the one from 2018

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... like the idea of a "journal" -- a book just about what I do or feel every ... 'd remember? Notebooks were my solution to that. I have pages of melodic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  to do with the foody name of the place). I took a whole bunch of ... thinking about the results of the tests; I was just concerned with relaxing ... . However, many people had fraternity retreats -- I think many of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  us download some app called the "CrimZone," the whole purpose of which ... since we haven't gone to any of Harvard's sports events in the first place ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  gesture recognition. The first day of class was more of a survey of UI ... ’Afrique by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch). We read the first half of a classic ... spent a solid day perusing the pages of LearnCpp.com, trying to learn C

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... " here (Prof. Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my ... Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an ... . The release of the WikiWatcher suite near pranking season makes for a ... . Theoretically, this could be used to generalize the types of people who live there

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of ... team can answer and the other team gets to hear the rest of the question. Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  performance stopped me in my tracks, even though the first two songs were sung ... that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... because I’d miss the First East random lounge craziness, and the gorgeous ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  basically the first week of classes. Until, we realized that we really wanted ... -prevent-your-already-late-pset-from-being-more-late hard And The-list-of-challenges-can-fill-up-this-whole ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... act of note taking remains. So, without further ado, here are all the ... itself focuses primarily on the computation aspect of the course- teaching

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024