Search

Search Results

• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do things, it's to make sure that things get done." i've learned that it doesn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  ” for effort! A smiley sticker chart? Or is it a Downward Logarithmic Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... course, the grade changes to I/X, where X is the official grade which

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... stayed close to its Kazakh roots. The bell that sounded the end of each ... it came to foreign language, I felt like 2-4 years wasn’t enough to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  just starting to study and trying to do well, I immediately decided it ... exams have to pass an undecided "exam average". I assumed the worst it ... classes, so I aptly decided it was time to begin the cram for 8.01. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from ... reality. The mission of the MIT Institute Community & Equity Office is
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  . Restaurant Week wasn’t just a chance to stuff ourselves with amazing food—it ... presentation due the next day, and a bunch of work still left to complete for it ... !   And then we returned to campus, and it was time to get back to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Something is coming, part 2… Snively and I are still working on something awesome.

  

  Snively and I are still working on something awesome. This week: (In reference to this.) (Photo credit: Liz Kimball '11.) (See part one.) (Yes, we ate it afterwards.)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 13, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Media Lab?

  The MIT Media Lab is known for its bold innovations that help invent the future, and fosters an “antidisciplinary research community” that mixes and matches seemingly disparate research disciplines to pioneer
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  objective, but it’s not; what you think ought to be true is often just as ... read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... nice to have concrete answers to the phenomena of my life. It got to the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  straight is really hard It's hard to prepare enough material to teach for 3 ... of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that ... least 6 hours to get it together I certainly have a lot more respect for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  onto just a few pages of paper is tough so we decided to try and make it ... . It was an interesting thing to watch. For, as you see, we have made ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  ’ kind of experience. This is nice because it means you don’t have to take ... and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in research and public service, and it would be wonderful if you could come to see the posters, talk to the students involved, and learn more about our

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;p>Sometime after 1995, the band fizzled out, as far as I know. It doesn't seem to ... )</blockquote><p></p> <p>The next time The Band surfaced, it was due to the efforts of ... --</p> <p>It's the One, the Only, MIT MARCHING BAND

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  ' here. It is frustratingly hard to believe that with every particle of my ... .[/annotation] Everything that happens to me is intrinsically linked to metadata about the place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... shirts, one HSSP shirt, one Firestorm shirt. This one is my favorite. It ... - and the best part is that I can accompany it with a story from my summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  it takes is awareness and the desire to enact change. MIT has long ... stemmed from the dorm's shitty infrastructure, which is what led to its ... want to rent bulldozers and build islands. It is a world largely without

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the Battlecode real-time strategy game. This is a one-month hardcore coding skills
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  Okay, first off, I have to tell you that Erica '07 is a superhero ... the term, working desk is a great opportunity for me to make a little ... why this is wrong from an economic perspective. Then I decided to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005