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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it ... idea of it was much different from actually committing to it. I spent the ... best to be as resourceful as possible. There is a process of getting our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... have a significant amount of time to dedicate to it.A key factor in these ... what is at stake/why it matters is clear in the argument you are making

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

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  loop where every edge is colored differently. Want to know more? Read his ... trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... interested him the most (and seemed possible to solve), he took it back to his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of ... particular configuration is celebrated merely on the basis of its existence or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  Now that it's break, I finally have time to sit down and actually ... little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  projects. It’s a relief that I’m staying with someone I know, since this is ... wit. He asked me if I’ve been to the UK before, and I told him that it ... international flight, make sure that it's properly activated. I had to do this

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  about the class in my next blog, to be posted this week, but this is what ... the last hour. I call this “The Finger,” because it’s what I will use to grip and switch a lever back and forth. It’s attached to a beam I’ll call

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  sophomore year to watch as many of the IMDb Top 100 films that I could. It was ... feel so tense. It was about as close to an epiphany as I’ll ever get, and ... Germany, Italy, France, and China thrown in. It’s really fascinating to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  Yes, fall is here: This blog post will be a collection of several events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because ... collaboration. Students are encouraged and expected to work with each other on
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  , and nothing else. It seems almost inevitable that this is going to ... through, it is scary to think that some people will only ever see me, judge ... your paper. It is that your paper will affect the perception that others

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  someone to get it graded, but it's similar to a weekly problem set. 6.101 is ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , which made the process more complicated/drawn out than it had to be. So yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... seem to be responding to your email Notice that he is not in his office

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  all sides. It's difficult to brown the meatballs evenly in the skillet ... one and stuck it in the pan, then rotated the first one to a second face ... to complete, then drop as many as they need to, which is easy because

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... 's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was founded by a guy named Jim Margraff who is, you guessed it, an MIT alumnus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  to August 8, 2008 As nice as tropical Taiwan is, it's again time to ... intending to write out a more detailed entry of exactly what it is that we try ... leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  it. I guess now is as good a time as any to ponder the intricacies of ... feeling this is going to be a pattern, and I don't mind it at all. There are ... mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’t the worst thing– I don’t mean to imply that it is. There are plenty of ... it. Yes, it is a somewhat privileged position to be able to only take ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to learning in a small interactive group environment with dedicated teachers ... possibility of finding true happiness. Concourse has unique facilities to