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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  goal is to see the sunset on a mountain, and visit Mont. Blanc (these two ... sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on ... Microsoft, working on Surface keyboard (that's all I can say, the rest is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  experiences with 8.012, I'm happy to report things seem to be going well. On the ... - on the first day, for example, we built model airplanes. On the second ... a three-hour "studio" period on Wednesdays (denoted by the second 3

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  test out of it, you have to do all the problem sets for the class on your ... blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... pressure head on the fluid, and how the cuff she had tightened on my arm was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  to COVID-19 including:  the latest updates on academic continuity ... moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... disruptions, where we remind students to focus first "on taking care of yourself

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  really need to check the due dates on those things. I also really need to ... my progress on a day-to-day basis. I was looking at the Big Rectangles ... ’t click for me. I had to think so much on the court I could barely move. I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  accepted to MIT. Jenna's essay on the bus driver was one of many things that ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  to the Sailing Pavilion (I should mention I’m on the varsity team wooo ... head for the past 2 weeks that I have been on campus, I still can ... . Like, actually, the rectangular building used to be a warehouse for some

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  to take differentials on arbitrary surfaces. because the tangent ... for this class mostly because the pure math major requires you to take a ... real coefficients. you would have to give the coefficients of {1, x, x^2

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  on everything. As the election nears, it is important to acknowledge ... knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  . Just a couple here. On the drive up to MIT: In bexley: Some of ... they totally have so they get to eat more and poop more the second floor ... clearly trying to clean the litter box chewing on their own tails pushing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  to be more and more people on campus but not the type of people you ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  . *happily shows us his set up for the virtual semester on the second day of ... to have failed 8.02, funnily enough, because it led me on the way to ... , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

   police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... tunes to get the mind flowing. I prefer to use themostdangerouswritingapp ... stop typing for more than 7 seconds.   This works to cook up a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater ... 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... the campus life center, gently harassed a staff member to let me use his

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  . What could MIT give me that could top those three? I went to the second ... , meaning they fully expect me to hold on to this card for the next four years. Along the same lines, you’ll want to make sure you have a good picture on

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  By now, three full days have passed into my second semester here. The ... the next few months with 57 units of courses: On February 6th, the ... about wanting to have things proved and all, so I definitely like the idea

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  confidence in the area. Some cool opportunities came my way: I was invited to ... called me the class clown, but they also called me the second-smartest kid in the class (first place went to my math rival). If they were busy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the ... glow-in-the-dark murals on blacklit walls. People are spinning poi lit on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  to agree on the score for each question. Most people graded the third ... more important to be cautious about the moves you make on the board ... research so you're getting it anyway. I said goodbye to Daniel, got on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  below). So MIT Medical can do the whole deal with care end-to-end on the Extended Plan. Or, if you are on just the Basic Plan, they need to send your ... arrangements to put charge for the services, either on the MIT Student Accounts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008