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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent ... topic. Questions to be taken up include, but are not limited to: Is ... plans for an IAP site visit. (Previous field sites include Haiti, Brazil

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams ... his last day lecturing us, Professor Yaffe put up a transparency with a

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  numbers up, we are likely to see a record low EA admit rate, lower than last ... patient. And as I've said, prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  for HASS-Ds they don't end up taking, so there are almost always open ... trudged upstairs to scrounge up some ice. After filling my bucket, I was ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... here for anything in the world.Favorite things about Boston: The Charles ... anywhere and there's so much stuff to do for college kids. I love that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... the meantime, they have this sign up. Can you imagine what I looked ... busiest hallway on campus? No, really, just think about it for a sec. "Uh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard ... hello. So what do admissions people talk about for 6 days in a row, 16

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  --- EDITED 12/11/04 09:50 AM EST --- The postman picking up all 383 ... spaces for regular action, further pressuring people to apply early. We don ... 're aiming for a smaller class this year. So, given our 1/3 constraint, our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  : I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night ... applications, before heading to Teele Square for my usual Tuesday night pub ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great ... ) I have to do for the office. My silly notion that when I blog, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  volunteer for. The text line just opened back up this semester, and it ... mark it up with what has been done/needs to be done for that particular ... my best to set up good practices at the beginning of the semester, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out ... another group photo and that other group is waiting for another person who ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  be best to eat Oreos upon waking up for class. But if you slather ... to be true. Some truths are easy. For example, the addition of peanut ... ? Easy. On the other hand, some truths are difficult. For example, MIT is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  bit, as we all get ready for the day. … After my first class, I meet up ... in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  better way for you to feel welcome and pick the perfect-est living space ... friends from home. I’ve had to make up too many months of silence after the ... Library, the second largest in the country. Purchase tickets for performers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once, pretty much quiet. Walking up the main steps into Lobby 7, the tweetweet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight ... activity, if not necessarily for the content, then at least for the musical ... about Rocky Horror: for some reason, the showing started at midnight. More

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... Tech for the past two years and know that he is not only an enthusiastic ... less surprising that I ended up at MIT. I mean, if you replace all

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012