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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... learning style is definitely different at Cambridge and requires a great deal

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk ... knew that this was the perfect opportunity to make a blog post. I can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I've been breaking computers from a young age. In middle school I tried setting up a dual boot between Windows XP and Ubuntu but I messed it up and corrupted my Windows installation and left myself without a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... how convenient a subway system could be. Also, I hate driving, so public ... buy a succulent from a tiny flowershop bursting with greenery. As for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the ... organizations like: LUChA (La Unión Chicana por Aztlán) MAES (Latinos in ... light at the Latino Cultural Center's annual Cena a la Seis during Family

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  finding an interesting and useful internship, and living in a place in which ... diverse job opportunities in a given field; understanding and seeking out ... happy in your location is a valid and important concern, it is equally

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  how to make a minecraft bot reflections on my microsoft internship

  

  This last month, I was a micro-intern on the Semantic Machines team ... see it at first. We scheduled a technical interview over Zoom, and ... time limit, which was a relief. About a week later, I got the acceptance

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  .019?” a professor asked me after a lecture one day. “Your [3.010] poster ... office hours just a few weeks later. They were both under the guise that I’m a course 3 (materials science and engineering) major. Rightfully so

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank from the firehose this month. This post is about that, and it has a happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to this I'd have definitely had a freak-out or two before going to my only ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  So this is a big week. This, is not only production week for ... physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b ... gorgeous today -- 82F with a light sea breeze and very little humidity -- so we hopped in the car and parked in a parking garage downtown. (Normally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non ... you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... . While I'm not a prefrosh, I do enjoy a good pillow fight every now and ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high ... Kenya - so will you consider swahili as being a foreign language?" We don

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021