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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... -source 4-year academic planner. CoursedRoad collects all the data about MIT’s ... CourseRoad and see how it fits! Want to see what it’s like to be Course <

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... AP Exam prep. Barron’s Test Prep is the most thorough for really any test–but if you’re in a time crunch, it’s difficult to glean out the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  deserves some credit.   Yes, this place is awesome. It’s MIT, oh my ... ’t technically acheive anyway because the first semester is pass/no record), it’s ... , and diversity breeds innovation. It’s one of the things I love most

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  . MIT’s planning department is one of the best in the nation and ... ’s what makes it such an interesting city to study. As rebuilding ... , we worked with alums from the MIT master’s program in city

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been ... , installing software and things. 100 MBs?? 4.1 GBs?? GET. OUT. Yeah, it’s ... , I want my free space. So that’s why architecture has been such a pain

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  run through Boston at the time, and he was chilling in someone’s driveway, I thought it warranted a mention. It’s not like there isn ... country and track team is to Jamaica Pond (part of the Boston’s Emerald

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  number of minutes exercised each week. The first week’s goal was 150 ... Ate the Whole Thing.” Week 1’s competition was for the Best Team name ... member reported exercising 1,270 minutes last week, that’s three hours a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others ... Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the first time. I fell in love with Adichie’s ... rediscover home. It’s a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and a record of how

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason ... , Apple Bake is a little more serious. It’s on our shirts, it’s in our blood

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , knowing that they’re only gonna get older. Grandpa’s gone deaf, and grandma ... items. I think we did an entire year’s worth of clothes-shopping that day ... brother’s safety and our cousin’s sanity. [caption id="attachment_101989

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of my bookshelf, at the perfect vantage point to scornfully watch me. It’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent’s

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart’s ... market in Boston that’s open every Friday and Saturday until sunset. Also ... ="suburb north of cambridge"]Somerville[/annotation] that Winnie’s coworker had

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  little power to actually change anything. There’s no ‘taking my anger to ... human being in this country.  Sometimes it’s in the covertly racist policies and tweets of a certain president, and sometimes it’s in the open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  - khaki shorts and a lion-face-print top, since it’s a warm spring day and I ... them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and ... that. At the nurse’s office, I eye the three gigantic needles laid out on

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... get my Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences minor. It’s Week 5, and ... exciting class of the week (or even the past 3.5 years?). It’s one of those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of ... was a giant room full of plastic balls in Simmons. (Wait, that’s not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  I’m frequently proven otherwise. There’s something about learning a ... speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20 ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It’s ... to fun locations, like Chinatown or the North End (“Boston’s Little

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  by the time the alarm declares that it’s 9AM on a chilly Friday morning ... -season conditioning and practice in the bubble, MIT’s very own indoor tennis court ... seems like there’s a student performance every week, from a cappella

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013