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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students, professors, and even tourists think about MIT. Why are they here? What kind of ... for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate ... lifestyles which humans can and have held. Language affects the way we live

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  't that terrifying? If you can guess where you're most likely ... . That could be bad, right? What can you do about that? Well, to some

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... trying things, you can learn to do something that just weeks before seemed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  limits, that we can understand where they fall. Over this long and heart ... can't get the last 2-3 questions on the problem set. It doesn't matter

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  about ways the class can be improved, and generally preparing it for mass ... all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon...

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  you can't recycle old strategies. Most of the finals are run cage ... that everyone can see units dramatically exploding on the map during the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... applicable… you can kind of take it anywhere your interests go. This is a very

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  with the sharp point of an axe (hey, can't blame it. I don't either). So how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  -long "semester" where students can take classes if they want, or just enjoy being ... about Python since I feel I can always develop my Course 6 skills. Plus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  perfume or nail polish remover can appreciate. We used the program Aspen ... in this stream, (if you're wondering how two liquids can separate

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  combat the (mostly) untrue coder stereotype of unwashed nerds who can only ... still can. I think there might be some kind of moral lesson you prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  ....Fun? Ah yes, that's it––fun! As you can probably surmise from Matt's entry ... .....what's that? Can we enhance the image? Hmm the back of that head looks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  can have. Grades (like SAT scores) will be forgotten after time, but ... through stressful times. After all, you can't have a rainbow without the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  , slowly count to ten, and open up your mind as wide as you can. You are ... representing your academic competence on an objective scale; however, they can be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  laughter] But how can it be deep, we're only in two dimensions. [pause again ... ++? I'm scared. Then again, there's no way this can be as hard as junior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  's festivities sounded especially exciting: trampoline dodgeball. You can read ... ", wherein you can post question with a specific hashtag, and they show up on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  the semester progresses. What I CAN say is that every particle in every ... can attribute my enjoyment of the text to the dopamine in my brain, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  student. They're the people you can talk to about what classes you should ... to ask how you're doing. I certainly can't speak for all of them since

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011