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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  like we captured the memey, spontaneous, chaotic energy of BC perfectly ... and repurposed a map already in use by another floor of Burton Conner ... final leg of the SCUFFY process, first-years ranked their floor using a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  the home left us a handbook that had a lot of rules by which we were ... still won. (Also taken by Sam) That evening, several of the guys (not me ... fine, even though he had never done it before: (Taken by Sam, of course

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  was an explosive summary of the diversity, passionate energy and power ... , atmospheric gases of power I could contemplate, be overwhelmed by, but not fully ... attacked by a bunch of merry kids wielding dangerous-looking water guns. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  inner workings of the GEL admissions process; it’ll be interesting for ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... in table groups, and reflected on some of the capabilities that define

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  , "Drug Vulnerabilities of the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia Are Revealed by ... Harvesting," Second Award in the category of Energy: Physical, representing the ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high

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

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The ... to support peers? Yes! The number of support services led by students ... process. MIT also has an office of Global Education & Career Development

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  . Acclimatization- the bittersweet process of fitting in but also falling into a state ... precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  a comment by me, or the admissions office, or MIT on the politics of ... your views are pre-approved by someone who does, the same narrow set of ... . And we do that by allowing a lot of students to write freely about their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  friend, and then a neighbor, and then another neighbor, and by the end of the semester, I had spent a lot of time and energy on making sure the ... energy for itself. I suppose that perhaps this, too, is the cost of caring

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students ... at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... five day program, we introduce the freshman to the world of product

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  by making language a bond instead of a barrier. Its primary objective ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Alaska, part I There...

  

  Seattle, rented a Jeep that had been designed by someone specializing in the ... -CHING" every time we drove by a Starbucks and blasting the chicken dance out of ... railway to save hundreds of miles of travel by taking more direct routes, it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  there will be comprehensive presentations by Executive Director of Student ... the programs he's been a part of while at MIT. Insight for Parents by ... gathering hosted by the Chair of the MIT Parent Connectors at the Barker

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... processed most December testing by now), and, if applicable, Interview Report ... show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  accomplished a net of zero by accumulating a few normal reps and cancelling them ... I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year's Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  by Parents is Saturday morning at 8:30 am. A panel of current MIT ... an informal gathering hosted by the Chair of the MIT Parent Connectors ... on the experiences of the UROP student panel as moderated by UROP staff

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  felt motivated by Mocha, and since I felt like I'd lost a lot of time to ... part of the community, I was motivated by several people on the team, I ... should be aware that growth can happen in any number of ways, not just by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  completion of the word sequence “World War I was triggered by” is “the ... practices, and the worst of their shortcuts can be mitigated by walling them off from targeted areas of our curriculum–by teaching bits and pieces

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... number of resources needed to take care of them. The idea behind google ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  within the limitations of the secondary school’s resources and budget. A ... Amazon Prime apparently, but rather Prime the energy drink by KSI and Jake ... of New Jersey. [annotation note="to clarify Shruti did all the driving

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023