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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of ... variety of research methods - books, journals, Internet, and real

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Google Fonts led to higher-quality open-source fonts. Part of the quality ... identify Windows fonts, you're set to identify many of the fonts you'll see ... ="83921" /] Here's a sign for Swapfest. From April to October, hundreds of Swapfest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their additional documents via Naviance, SOCIR, or other methods. Applications will
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  can send in a picture of your invention, the place to send it would be ... forced, which is not how you want to appear. So the short answer is ... courses and your requirement to take them, but that's more because of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  minutes, some of these websites will have you going from excited to get your ... application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently ... application season did not come from this large number of things to balance, but

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate yourself to rethink what makes it good, and even more difficult to force

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... exposure to the infamous world of infomercials. Early morning and late night ... the low, low price of $19.95 wasn’t enough to convince me that those

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  's one of my favorite classes I've ever taken at MIT (even though I had to ... tool, or a visualization of some dataset.  We had the choice to make ... [annotation note="To send an email out to all of the dorm mailing lists on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  phenomena related to forces in biology. Students present one paper, sort of ... ; Teller with one of his routines I tried to take some photos of the event ... environment. ESD.054 is more of a theoretical approach to leadership for which

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn ... extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail ... happened, and also because Sam's Mom made fun of me when I didn't know Tony

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  really want to do nothing but study all day? Of course not! And neither ... particular system of organization doesn't really matter to anyone but you, but ... 'll be well on your way. 4) Find things to do in small blocks of time. Did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  3/22 Welcome to the unfiltered stream of my consciousness. Please ... awesome things (including making this website)-- I'm so proud of them!) We ... on rare earth elements, to be brief (more info in website!^^) If you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to ... , compared to the massive amounts of grade inflation I experienced in high ... then I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Speaking of class averages

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  .e. computational/mathematical modelling of neurons and neural systems). Good stuff to ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show ... , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the Google table.)  All of these big-name companies that are revolutionizing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... " (on the right.) It reminded me of my trip to Spain three summers ago. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  methods to analyze a hUge archive of documents from the Brazilian ... wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my ... content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  gained a lot of attention. I haven't gotten the chance to read it yet, but ... combination, especially for those who, like him, resist being forced to choose ... universe. I'll try to read it before the end of the summer, but feel free to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  start to figure themselves out. Lose the culture, heart, soul of our site in the service of narrow goals. Be too scared to change for the better ... should stop doing? What conversations do we want to be a part of, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018