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• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  . We need to become conscious of our environment and potential impact on ... -performing team member. This encourages everyone on the team to be knowledgeable ... : 42 graduates are well-equipped for the workforce. They know how to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... variation on this method is to write all the chunks on notecards, shuffle them ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to ... “playing exam” doubling as an opportunity for him to check on how we’re doing ... and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  support for MIT students. Whether you're struggling with a pset because of something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you're ... hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  eventually get better? Also yes. I learned how to time my throws more ... bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to ... looking forward to demonstrating to my coworkers exactly how terrible at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  If you're a regular on /r/technology, you might have seen Project ... about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... -of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a ... yards. I'd applied to live on-campus knowing this—but deep down, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  laughing about how much smarter you are than an MIT student while your ... world is? Well, I will tell you. It is going to the Zesiger Center to go running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... , and I would love to meet you, so please come visit while you’re here! I ... The Gray House, where MIT’s president lives. what other dorm gets to see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on ... the truth? I was up at 7 today to work on a prelab and then went to a 9

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... campus everyday on each hour.  Quite a few MIT students go each year to ... /JPL sign, though. After visiting JPL, we hurried on our way to take a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  crazy how much a few years of perspective could bring to the movie ... cinematography was so contentious, how Stanley Kubrick managed to make slow action feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  return from Italy, I'm on another plane, this one to San Francisco, where I ... -- applying to and going off to college -- I, too, have been preparing for another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  any time just as long as you put in the effort to physically get out of ... . However, when you work, you work from 9 to 5 (depending on where) and when ... with this summer, but I do feel like I am starting to get a better hold

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... Credit Union (partially because I get a debit card with "MIT" on it and a ... I'm gaining money rather than losing it. Lastly, I also wanted to get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what ... , trying to focus less on growth and more on recovery until I'm better ... and coming to terms with the fact that some things are out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  them in some gift shop and they are cool to hang on my backpack. From my ... to get many more. Funny enough, the cities I have keychains from and ... resorted to giving things away sometimes and also selling stuff on Dormspam

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process ... SO amazing at making up jokes on the fly!  Escape Room We went to an ... (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  mechanical engineering only, I didn’t really know what I was getting into on ... all, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. One more year to go! ... Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... was a kid, but come on- how many people actually end up becoming what

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019