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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  once give, will so assure them that they will be anxious to remain under ... for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  experience that you don't need the book right away, so if you have to have it ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... . First, there was 9.00 (Intro to Psychology) and 9.01 (Intro to ... gain a much better understanding of exactly how an action potential works

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  for our class picture and is where we will come together once again to ... As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to ... really dreadful rodent problem. To draw attention to this ever

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  ’s very easy to take on too much. I’ll let the data and the stories speak ... . There are a lot of resources here to help you get the support you need so ... Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  /1/08.  Please be advised that you need to drop the subject from your schedule. I ... somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... forward to classes starting. Not to mention had to go to classes when they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  top things, because everything i need to do gets done, and i'm no ... the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... Bombers What Bomb At Midnight ------------------------------ Just to show you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  startlingly similar to an ELL. “You need to talk to people, you need to get ... restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... cross country team dinners; it’s where MIT students say they’d like to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses ... saying, “I'm married to a lactose-intolerant person. She's otherwise very nice.” Professor Lander explained how Mendel (a monk) did much of his

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  left turn and crashes into my face. Immutably, as IAP drips to an end, I become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic (instead of waxing my windows, which seriously need more waxing than whatever

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Porter Room Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever ... to step up and become the floor's new Apple Bake Chair (TM). No other ... competition, assuming that we'll end up winning at least as much as our initial

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  -old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his ... fluorescent glare in the school library, to eloquently preach about how the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  , with the tools I need to take on anything. Would I have felt the same ... ; Yet, we are only halfway there. There's still much left to learn, more ... I — all of Class of 2019 — had been looking forward to this day all

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  correlation to reality." (on why pundits' opinions aren't worth very much) Also ... currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  interested in exploring. Drop by Media Lab Needed to pick up a rec letter ... . I ate so much seafood. So much. I'm going to do a lot of writing ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school ... we have enough information to make a decision. If we need further

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  accumulate over time as opposed to appearing on the screen all at once. This ... course 6 class we wanted to take. Last semester, we finally took 6 ... semester, and while they did seem interesting, we felt like we wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020