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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it ... ’m amputating a precious, home-grown limb. I tell myself that I’ll come back to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is like an older brother to me! he did something that i can't tell is ... to write a blogpost about it. here it is! I think I have to provide ... teachers attempting to combine Rosetta Stone and mobile games and doing so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  , we wrote regarding changes to the AP exams. Since then, we have ... offer require them to take all the AP exams they had planned. The short answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after ... a knob to raise the handguard, turn the machine on, and push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... published on the MIT Office of Digital Learning blog here.   I continue to ... aids and passionate faculty work hard to ensure that we graduate with the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  Saying that I was excited to go to college would be like saying that space is big. I couldn't wait to start over - to create an entirely new ... commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... bound to your decision. To change your mind (by the end of sophomore year), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  to Spain']before this current blog you’re on.[/annotation] That first part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a ... going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and ... the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head ... to me. However, by the end of the trip it almost became a sort of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  terminal to another, NRT has the cleanest toilets you can possibly imagine ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... to move when the cleaning staff comes over). Naturally, I’ve also been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK [caption id="attachment_45168" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Trying to say something that sounds ... working computer, and some free time to go through my photos from the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019