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• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  will probably turn me into bacon. (Speaking of which, do you know what ... think one of the most important things at MIT is not learning to be ... For those of you who missed the blog post subtitle: "You might fit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  evolve into a running commentary on how terrible everything is, and then later into something more like a random assortment of wingdings characters ... importance of not having to make this trade-off, and they try to be flexible

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... It’s that time of year again. I remember it well. I intended to ... -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  environment of academia to go into the industry (though MIT has not had follow ... the class now. 98LH was one of the required junior tutorial options for ... articles every week (for a total of ~300 pages a week) and wrote a 25-page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  importance of having many cultures and learning from them. Today, I would like to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home state of New Hampshire's greatest, and most revered, cultural practice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  . Unlike the majority of admitted students enthusiastically celebrating à la ... more along the lines of “okay, cool?” And boy did I feel guilty about it. Here I was, admitted to a fantastic school, the news of which had

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  , and, more important, so did the eyes of thousands of children who came ... 's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... -long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  subject. Begged. We're talking knees, clasped hands, tears, and offers of ... 've gotten asked about bathrooms before and during most of my dorm tours I end ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  's utilized for a bunch of classes (including many for freshmen) and is ... 't that comfortable. A remodel of 10-250 means new and, hopefully, more comfortable chairs. I went into 10-250 yesterday to check on the remodeling

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  excited to run into. Many of the walls at the Broad are clear glass, and I worry that someday after hours I will injure myself walking into one of ... right in front of MIT has all of those. So today, I just ran into the bit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The sky is falling! Either a huge cottonball just exploded or it's snowing.

  

  And so it begins. The first snow of the term has arrived. Kresge in the snow! Later that cold October evening, the snow turned into rain.

  • by Bryan
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  important -- where do data and technology fit into that system? how can we use ... most importantly, to be represented in the first place. In the absence of ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  best known for the transformation of the hyperbolic cosine function into ... present these following questions of great import, as well as answers of ... Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  another important point to mention: MIT Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill will ... huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the cool stuff they make. (Sponsored by Make magazine, of course.) There

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  of Chi Phi, when they're not playing in 2,000 pounds of imported snow ... , 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson ... cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  's an important part of deploying the shopperml project ... 've used a lot of software-engineering-specific terms in this blog post ... of my working day revolves around said specific terms. also, because

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  . Saket asked, "Sir, as it is very difficult to get into MIT, what kind of ... -state schools. How important is class rank in terms of MIT admission? If my rank ... that's being tossed into the international pile?" Many of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and right behind him is Ameer. Scattered throughout the rest of the office is ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007