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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  this nation is to hold to a high goal, it must continue to cultivate a ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  !!!” It’s kind of a walk from Stata to McCormick, but McCormick is on the ... to grab our ankles without warning.  Naturally, Penny thought it would ... you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in ... . Matthew: It has to be 18.675, which is “Theory of Probability.” This class ... what they had to say! Short introductions!  Jonathan: My name is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... should get around to seeing once or twice when you get a vacation. It's a ... 'm making it out to be, but it had a nice ring to it.) You'll have to get

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  contribute to our fraternal environment. Still, you protest, how is it ... life and fraternal life is so different that I don't think it would be ... mentioned in Snively's entry, there is no "pretty solution" to this dilemma

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... . Here, one team is working on "Drawing Conclusions I" (try it yourself at ... "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  from my presentation, though... hard as it is to believe. Anyway, I went ... is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  doing good enough, here it is! I think a lesson we all need to learn (especially me...) is that it's okay not to try your hardest 100% of the time ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... , garnering small bits about what it takes to build a successful company from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  title to his poem. Perhaps it is the message of the poem. That, there ... class discussion. It usually takes me about 20 minutes to digest the poem ... very comforting to me. This is really more my style. I love this. I find

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  exactly CPW is going to be like, give it a read. It also includes links to ... I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the ... blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  're going to MIT. Work is tough here, but rewarding - you might use it to do ... to worry about it in the first semester, which is pass/no record.) It ... !) So what is a poetry slam, anyway? It's a 25 year old movement of spoken

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  the experience of watching Hamilton is to compare it to finishing a ... It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It ... -by-hour schedule. But today is November 1st. It's been exactly two years since I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  , is a huge bubble that's easy to lock yourself into - it's hard to find ... is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but ... sorely needed the experience. It took a long time for me to realize that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the ... it is in my dorm or around campus.  Here you go. Cats Galileo

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Though it may be difficult to believe, sometimes MIT students like to ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... started one. And it translated to school, too--my middle school English

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  will waive your interview. It is your responsibility to check your My ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... 'll need to set up the interview no later than October 20, and conduct it no

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  killian and up to the big dome, and think about how wild it is that i'm here ... . and i'm there multiple times a month, and it is a joy to keep him in my ... life is more calm than it used to be in a way i didn't use to appreciate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  am-6pm Monday to Friday plus extra trainings and tests - but it is ... beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it ... excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Isaac Lozada Isaac Lozada comes from Texas to MIT.

  

  wants to do yet, but it's something along those lines, he says. After he was accepted to MIT in December, his mother told him it was the very school she once longed to attend. ''It's his dream and my dream together

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 27, 2006