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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... crammed into a shorter period of time! If midterm season was a bad enough

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  am (I got into MIT!), I know that there is still a LOT of fun to enjoy ... all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole bunch of work backed up and waiting for me. (Yes, I highlight some cool

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  greatly nonzero,” not in the hipster-artistic sense of “look deeply into the ... Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student ... you know. By “you”, I especially mean “employees and proprietors of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  of my loft for hours, feeling exhaustion settle deep into my bones as I ... her claws into the fabric of my jeans but I couldn't care less. I went ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... . Since graduation, I’ve been pursuing the slow boat of academic science — I ... living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  Though I’ve thought of myself as a writer for most of my life, I ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... . This was my state entering playwrights’ workshop, with the basic aim of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  encouraged me, helped me, and stuck by me as I fumbled my way into a modicum of ... . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of ... between an absurd sense of calm and an overwhelming sense of panic. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  Like many of you, I caught Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith this weekend. If you stayed through the credits, you saw the name of ... Artist on the other two Star Wars prequels, and Revenge of the Sith was his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what ... and instead choose Management. Everyone comes into MIT undeclared, and chooses a major at the end of freshman year.* *n.b. Actually, you need not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  into a state of calmness. Breathe in. Breathe out. The interviews had a ... , they’d get into the meat of the hour. You were given one or more ... Boston’s weather and stepped into a wonderland of mid-seventies stability

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... jumped into action. Early in the morning, dorm presidents (like me ... tomorrow" meant "have 520 hamburgers, 68 dogs, a corresponding number of buns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  A reader of the blogs emailed CJ the following, which CJ then ... generate blogger avatars, just for the fun of it. also there are different ... up my alley in terms of what I do for my UROP, so I gave it a shot this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  . And my dreams of having a nice fun night where I would grow into this ... events for the sake of molding myself into someone I'm not. But at the same ... the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016