Search

Search Results

• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... , we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  said to me many times last year by half-hearted well-intentioners who wished to somehow alleviate my IHTFP feelings (then negative) but couldn ... trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... credit to Richard Beaubien and Marshall Goff who helped photograph the slam

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  's about time to blog about it. Turns out I'm just as bad as blogging things ... hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... originally thought that we needed to report extra early so that we could have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... ...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT ... 't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• 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…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering, headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳 ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora ... looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... [/annotation]raved over the aurora: Professor "Sorry to bother folks, but given how many

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my ... of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3 ... outcome. I don’t think I did enough, despite knowing that I pushed myself to the furthest limits that I’ve ever taken myself to. Looking back, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... head, so many things I want to blog about, but I have seemingly struggled to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... boxes bought from La Verdes. An hour before my flight was supposed to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... -time applicants to MIT, this application is newer than most, and we're [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  extremely stir-crazy kids have learned to scale the fence between our yards so ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020