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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  , taking new classes, and handling the new responsibilities that come with ... collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I ... foreign these steps have felt. Over the past month, my once-white New

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This ... that the rest of the world is missing.  Sam says that very few founders

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about ... situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... practical to work at the NIH since I'm also studying for the MCATs and I have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Practical Chemistry) A full list of the Courses can be found here. Each class ... lectures that we had here! (be sure to also check out 8.01 with the globally ... major number starting from the top and going clockwise. Taken from here

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  Latin (an area high school) the other night to see the Boston-area early ... , parents, alums, and MIT staff so that the students could ask questions and ... free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... because that's just how the cookie crumbled. That realization helped me beat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hospital State of Mind The things I hate about being stuck here

  

  I hate going to the hospital. Yes, hospitals help people. Most nurses ... can also drive you cRaZy. I'm in the hospital, and have been since ... being in a hospital while also managing being a student at MIT:   1

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished ... rapidly. All missing components must be received by 5 pm, Eastern Standard

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a monkey shower curtain, the A32 suite has a goldfish shower curtain, and now

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  now typing this--the computers, the oven, the HPLC pumps..." That was ... aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  's Club" on hall, which included guests dressing up. The only problem was ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... t-shirt or turtleneck and didn't come from the Army Barracks store on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete as a group (like walking down the infinite with a rainbow parachute

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch ... captures my story the best. When he was young, he would buy shoes that were

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  hang out with them all the time, too. It's a shame that I can only be ... locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... it around the house. Also, a lot of upperclassmen are interested in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... invited to the White House to present to President Obama and being named on ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  , however, have about 5-15 students in them - 15 being the very most. These ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though ... learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  on something that you might be able to continue into the next year. 2 ... It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012