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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... -D humanities class, so lots of people take it, course 9 or not. In the student evaluation guide, the class consistently gets a rating of 6 (out of 7), and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  that she answers truthfully regardless of whether the answer is good or ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of ... the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  a quarter of the displays. The Las Vegas Convention Center is huge, and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even had their own specially designed buildings outside of the exhibition

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the ... beats, unlike almost all other figures. the rest of the dance had ... . after the dance, my partner tells me i did a great job. “good form,” he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... just watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, another staple of the ... in the 20s because a large number of Macy's employees were new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  side of the bed, by the window, and I mention to him and Brenda that I ... ? But she continues, and clarifies that she expects the rest of her ... could reasonably classify as the middle of nowhere, way at the end of the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night you'll see MIT kids like you never knew them before! Some of the most ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heading back up Goodbye Maryland, hello Boston!

  

  Helllo! Today's the day...I'm going back to good old Boston. Any last minute questions about classes or life??? Post away...

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics ... 'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... learn and do. It's been hard reminding myself of this. I look at the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  platter of Swedish, German, and Austrian accents. The German and Autrian ... CL, who had sped ahead of us to the summit, and began our descent ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  , I got more and more excited. We were in the twelfth week of the ... semesters; it's usually 13.5 weeks of classes, plus 1 week of exams."]the end ... , it turns out that the week before the last week-and-point-five of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... the MIT branch of Camp Kesem was initially founded. Essentially, Camp ... fun. I'm lucky enough to be one of the CK 2010 counselors :) We

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... certain MIT students and alumni alike. Vesuvius Party The legend of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You ... communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my ... sent me. (It was something short, along the lines of "Congratulations ... applied early to MIT. We of course wanted to know if the other had gotten

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  the club I think I was able to make a very good group of friends there ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... more here. So, one of the classes that I feel I did really enjoy here

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016