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• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it ... my other classes, and I had to switch it to listener at the end of the ... .  MIT truly is a place where you are forced to drink from the firehose

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT ... enjoyed. I would have to be rigorous, I told myself, and I would be forced ... ’ve ever subjected myself to, and it was grueling to just sit and force

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  , "According to Google dot com, he had many lovers." This makes me go "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in ... the puberty of internet history. **Did I just admit to everyone I watch

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments

  

  I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the ... I thought this abbreviation of the word "Methods" was a very

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  . If you want to learn a little more about Dorian, check out his website ... are some of the most down-to-earth, generous, and sincere people who I ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... applied to four colleges that had some variation of a Neuropsychology major ... any one thing. If you happen to be looking for an overview of a million

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I ... heat his body to "supernova temperatures" of 4000 K, which has no visible

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  got to hear all about it. Here's a pretty cool time lapse video of the ... . * Speaking of wonderful lectures, Noam Chomsky also came to talk at MIT, about ... according to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, a linguist, philosopher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . (One of the many luxuries of IAP is to be able to spend hours just ... longer needed to consult Google Maps at every turn.  After each session ... , you push in firmly to force the clay up and down until it reaches a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... 'm still proud of the projects, so I wanted to share them. Read to the end ... awesome - it's basically like Google Drive, but for you to make music

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  recitation-room, is to be heated and lighted, and, through the kindness of ... there, and at certain hours to hold rehearsals. The great advantages of ... . Unfortunately, a year later the orchestra was disbanded due to lack of support

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  these suggestions should help to alleviate a bit of nervousness regardless ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... impressions count. Your EC only has a very limited amount of time to get to know

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my ... ), I headed across campus to the bookstore. All of these are highly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  for “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal ... someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of ... essence, what we’d like to understand the chains of cause-and-effect in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  stressed out of your mind?  The deans in this office are good to touch base ... injuries are the most common of these calls), you'll also be connected to MIT ... is, there are plenty of people here to help ^_^

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  waste of trees, I was overcome with self-denial and forced myself to pick ... student if I wanted to. (I am, of course, blatantly ignoring the huge mass ... hearing of Random Hall, even before talking to Donald Guy '12 (who, in all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... was rejected from both of those jobs and accepted to all four Physics Ph ... Factory but accepted to MIT in my junior year of high school (after which I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  overwhelming courseload of two classes, one of my classes 2.008: Design and Manufacturing II gave me a taste of the various manufacturing methods including ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... UROP and I noticed on their website there are two options of being paid ... famous and therefore have a great deal of gold. ;) You don't have to spend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006