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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... worthless. =( at the end of question 2. (To be fair, I wrote this at like 3 AM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  . Remember, at the end of the day, you're still the one actually writing the ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common ... the whole history of each school you apply to, I think it helps to at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  -exhaustive list of things you should remember to do this summer. Hopefully, this will make your time easier as you arrive at MIT. 1. Documents I ... signed copies of your I-20, your letter of admission and proof of funding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  You can now read this blog on the Morningside Academy of Design (MAD) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are given the choice of several types of faculty advising. There’s traditional

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  final project at the end of the semester online to show everyone what I ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  requisite spoons at the end of the day to force myself to go to sleep. If I ... the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  mistake of taking two classes that occur at the same time, 8.021 and 18 ... two weeks, but at least I know I'm not broken anymore! Among all of ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  support of education and residential life at Duke, and how her conversations ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most ... Regulations of the Faculty 2.11: Classes shall be suspended during the following ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... teammates sitting at a booth near the windows. When they spot me, the guy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at ... 've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures     ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and ... Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  permutation thereof, or anything at all, please comment below! I read all of ... left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012