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• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However ... sooner. David D. '17 You're coming to MIT, one of the best universities in ... perspective, and type of brain to succeed in a tech field but maybe not the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... . Each group has a computer to enable the learning process. Most of the ... beginning of the year, we took a diagnostic test and we were assigned to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... the country. Since a number of years have passed, you'll have to visit ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... dozens of fields, open exclusively to MIT students. Although there is no ... ! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... and more often. Now, I talk to them more frequently than any of my MIT ... could make the best of each scenario. One thing stood out to me about how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  work hours. But today I was finally able to attend one of the seminars I ... brimming over with the effects of this phenomenon as it applies to all ... , because one of the students at the seminar suggested that we change it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  bunch of music that I've been listening to this summer." Thus, I had to ... the fact that I do listen to a lot of jazz, classical and instrumental ... original spelling of the title) too much when we were kids thrashing along to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  treatment of diseases. This past summer, Gethers sought a way to continue ... Department of Biological Engineering, to lead an IROP in Thailand. "Matt was ... clearly dedicated to public service." Gethers has engaged in a variety of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  year, Conner 2 was crafty enough to procure about $1000 of the funding ... after 10.301. It's good to know that you can model parts of the process ... than regular pets? Of course they are. This led Gregg A. Miller to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  ). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super ... investigator" or PI), wants me to write some sort of short and sweet paper on the ... to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one ... (Monteverdi to Mozart) class. We discussed the score of a Bach French suite (No. 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  of taking classes like "Intro to Algorithms" or "Machine Learning in ... --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do ... do not want to go to law school. After a lot of [annotation note

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... Lobby of the Stata Center, the market is open Tuesdays from 10 am to 4 pm ... Image courtesy of greggavedon.com   The following is a guest

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for ... list of short, optional readings related to each week’s sessions is ... world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... regrouped and managed to defeat impressive teams from the difficult end of the ... I had nothing to do and how it was such a waste of time. Now one day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... all the time, there's a lot of uses on batteries. It's always best to ... account or in cash. Ideally you want to always have a comfortable amount of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a ... place to hide and c) get out of New York altogether. But your character ... can be done in the games, many of them choose to write a game of their

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  many people (and I, too, was once guilty of this crime) who went to one or two meetings of a club and declared themselves to be members. Guess what? Going to two meetings of the National Honors Society or the Physics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  Thursday night, my friend Diana and I went to a free showing of Forrest Gump ... . FRIDAY Friday night, a group of friends and I went out to dinner at Hsin ... documentaries in 10-250 with a group of friends as we prepare to make our own

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz ... besides music, I've also had the opportunity to take a ton of awesome photos ... evening we went out on to the Mass Ave. bridge and shot a bunch of photos of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014