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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  win any prize at all, I still won't be the first (prospective) doctor to ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your ... Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  number of classes for the spring will give me more space to be wild and ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... .  However, everyone else also predicted shops being closed and drove up to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... see myself continuing to take many more management classes in the future ... .  All were interesting novels and movies and I am excited to read the rest

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... to central and hit two places and cart things back. not too bad ... , to the point that doing nothing becomes more interesting? oops. despite

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / En Español

  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 ... group to answer questions Latino MIT parents may have. The guest speaker ... right afterwards. This was the first and only time she had gone to Rutgers

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

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  !!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E. '15 drove Kerry N. '14, Jes P. '15 and I to the animal rescue place in Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to ... 't pleasant? The molasses would be hot and runny qwhen it escaped the tank, butt ... sucked into the molasses and it was liek sweet quicsand! mmmmm! but not mmm

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  Well folks, the time has come. Note that the pic up top has changed to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a ... ... Me being cheesy... The big envelopes... Me being cheesy again

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting ... guide or anything and decided to just wander around the pedestrian zone ... 's birth house, which was closed by the time we got there. Not that there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes you think you will take? 3. What do you want to learn or know that you ... out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s alive! I built a little car.

  

  For better or worse, my 2.007 car actually drives. It's not quite as cool as Melis's, but it will do. Pictures and reflection about the ... , in lab, Professor Blanco helped me on my car! Thus, it's still not done

  • by Bryan
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President ... sclerosis, aka Lou Gherig's disease. The challenge is to dump ice water on yourself, donate $100 to the ALS Association, or do both, and then publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  the name we will use in all official print and email communication from ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use ... out those fields on the application. This is important so that your
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted From The Waitlist? If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the…

  

  If you were admitted from the waitlist, you should now be able to see the Admitted Students Portlet in your MyMIT account. Go sign the MIT '10 guestbook!

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... officers. The conference was quite interesting. Some of you might be ... really this was a conference about ideas and solutions to the problems that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... year to share with you. The pumpkin patch is handblown gradually over ... to you the enormity, variety, and grace of an ocean of more than 2000

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Jo-Jo Update

  

  Chang '03 advanced to the Semi-Final round but, sadly, did not win. (The winner was the former captain of the New England Patriots Cheerleading squad) Joanne did win the preliminary Group A talent competition. Way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 27, 2005