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• Blog / Hacks

  how to get from east campus to the student center things are not as they seem

  

  stop at the end of the hallway. look to your right: a double door ... sliver between the double doors at the end of the hallway and look at the ... powerless to stop you. arrive at the front of the student center and join

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the bottom is a snapshot of the same week in February 2010, when I was at the ... the clock at MIT and getting several full nights of sleep a week at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  up in a few episodes of MythBusters and begged out. So you can yell at ... the gold makes the rules, and many of the investigators at MIT are very ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  are meeting at Toscanini's (an ice cream joint at the intersection of ... decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better ... morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  at how the role of the onlooker has changed over time in different ... it working. You can see my final projects at the end of this blog ... ="Spanish IV"]21G.704.[/annotation] One of the benefits of this is that I had no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... dozens of students who have been to ISEF at least once, and many more who ... engineering research fair for high school students. Every year, millions of high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  enjoyed the show, even though they were a bit out of their element at a 10 ...   at the end of the day, i felt a vague sense of dissatisfaction ... i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Man of Many Hat(ches) Keyword: Free.

  

  event at the Hatch Shell. Not only did they have my favorite dishes of ... So one of the best aspects of being in Boston for the summer is all of the free cultural events that you can avail yourself of. One of the

  • by Bryan
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super ... chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no ... it turned into one of the most interesting classes I've taken at MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  beautiful prose and various other forms of media. I left the dorm at 5:30 PM ... of whom were very nice. At around 7 o'clock the loudspeakers came on ... Casey at the Bat I really enjoyed this part of the performance, it was an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  comics. We looked at: Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman Lois ... , talking about the importance of the context of data, looking at what is ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  3, 2006. ""At this point 29 percent of fish and seafood species have ... -life interviews, just to name a few. At the end, the consolidation of research takes ... "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  at the conclusion of "Our Friends," it's not just about Nobel Laureates ... , talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the entry "Our Friends," in memory of two special members of the MIT community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or telephone at 617-253-4971. [edit] I'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab?

  created to coordinate and promote water and food research at MIT. MIT’s efforts are aimed at a future in which the world’s water and food needs are ... environmentally sustainable way. Check out their site to learn about all of the
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  suggest. For example, at top-tier institutions only about 15 percent of ... the National Academy of Sciences reported in September. And at each step ... held at Columbia University and the City University of New York graduate

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  hear from your host well in advance of arriving at CPW [and even if you ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student ... Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will ... The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  poem each week.  At the end of July, inspired by my friend Sophia W ... books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  subjects outside of the classroom itself. If you're confident that you've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class