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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific ... -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being regularly exposed to challenging and cutting edge ideas and being asked to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the ... there’s no way to wiggle out of your eight HASS subjects.) This is all ... up AP credit hoping to pass into more interesting or pertinent courses

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... , you definitely don’t want to know. A few times, I sit on the floor and try to think things through. For rather difficult problems, sitting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to ... photographic documentation to jog my memory. So without further ado, I bring you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  hurt students when they apply to med school or law school? Thank you very ... and stanford. I want to do engineering, so MIT seems obvious. however, i don't want only a hardcore engineering education and want to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what ... feels like a leading question. CJ: The correct response is “I’ll get to ... around campus, taken from interesting angles, and the goal for each is to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person ... two bandanas, one on each side of their body. the bandanas have to be ... your jeans to thread the bandana through. you're killed if your hunter

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  over the step to the front door—you! Hello, incoming freshmen! new ... . Truffles, nerf guns, chess. Chess with nerf guns. Come to Random. 8 ... Pancakes. Why are we up this late? To feed you pancakes of course! Pancakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  was the one pulling the launch string) so I didn’t get to see it happen in real time, but if my team mates are to be believed, the rocket went ... springtime sky before hurtling back down to earth.   Our beautiful

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  Another Questions Omnibus... as always, I wish I had more time to ... , this is our first year blogging, so I don't quite know what to expect. I ... each application, and that people know that we did our best to select a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... pretty disciplined person, I have no self control when it comes to books

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  to actually write a blog. Life has been good, but busy. I’m taking ... ."]main thing[/annotation] on my mind, and I've been meaning to write a schedule ... like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to write about getting deferred for this blog and planned to talk about this ... interested in MIT freshman year when I got to be on campus during ESP's splash

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018