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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once ... longer surprised me. Past professors or TAs of mine have also offered to do ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the ... that lots of stuff got blown up. Well, at least we both wanted to see it ... at the Pizzeria Uno next to Fenway Park. (One of the best things about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... FIRST in 2007 and had the experience of a lifetime at the national ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  offered the explanation of his obsession with The Simpsons. I dare you to ... one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... accurate). A description of the current interview process is posted here.    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  example of how font choice can define a building's character, take a look at ... the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN ... of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  classes. At the activities midway, a two hour event in which many of MIT ... MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  Internship Program through one of the undergraduates at a Course 17 booth ... of CPW at an event, talking to people, or doing something around Boston ... my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  family attic storing years and years of toys and photo albums. At some ... favorite thing about the new redesign is our new feature at the bottom of ... randomly into the grid at the bottom of pages, so that new visitors can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... -end lab to one that we had at the beginning of the year and it more directly

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

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the ... passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  helpful, but only to a degree. Class Rank means different things at ... Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  whens of financial aid at MIT -- how your financial aid award was ... Parent Welcome on Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Stu Schmill, Dean of ... will talk about some of the programs she's been a part of while at MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing ... of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  at MIT. I did not, shall we say, come from the most stringent of high ... due to fear of the RIAA] 14. Besides my room, the reading room at ... -to-it-iveness to get through MIT. And at the end of the day, those traits are just as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  other, besides at networking events, and we take care of our own housing ... Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  ! Subject Evaluation Reports: at the end of each semester, students rate ... class. Make sure to contribute to the reports at the end of each semester ... and hard classes. Revel in the privilege of skipping that one pset at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  intellectual efforts of any given scientist, lab work fails at least half of the ... freshman year at MIT. A lot of people fail a whole class or two. This is okay ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006