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• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  Boston suburb used for conferences. It was amazing to hang out with my ... prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... of exams have started, yet about 70 girls attended. Some activities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of universities including MIT filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about another new class called 21H.000 History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics. It meets every Friday from 2-3PM ET, where lecturers and science writers from universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... Universities for International ISEF Participants Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4-5pm ... 's international students, we will discuss admission to U.S. universities, providing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two ... of a hundred battles. — Sun Tzu Start early  This time around I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  just hang some posters and art on the walls.   Some of my art ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... . Universal Grammar by Norvin Richards, Professor of Linguistics What does ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out ... may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  hanging out there for a bit, we headed towards the other side of the island ... island (around 10 people) were hanging out. The view of the skyline was gorgeous, so we decided to hang out there for the rest of our few hours on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  "lifer" -- he received 3 degrees from MIT (SB '65, SM '67, PhD '70) and was the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... ="Undergraduate Research Opportunity."]"UROP[/annotation]-ing” instead of “studying,” and going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  of guilt associated with just hanging out. They didn’t have any guilt ... hundreds, maybe thousands, of people, not only across campus, but among ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... have been traveling around for MD-PhD program interviews, which is one of ... from Paul ’11 many weeks ago that asked about my choice of major (a sub

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which ... 's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT ... 's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008