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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  helped me see things more clearly. MIT is unique in the incredible variety ... you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Laura '09 had an interesting bit a while back in her blog about East ... the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  became clear to us in 9th grade when we had three math teachers, two ... projects in the Maker Portfolio (we think she said yes, as long as you ... some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ... this post by saying that I am extremely lucky to have an internship in ... internship offer in hand despite [annotation note="i even went to this weekly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  best-known biomedical engineers in the world. He holds 500 issued and pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his research in drug delivery that has revolutionized cancer therapy. As the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in ... I felt in myself when I had to drop and retake courses. I remember nights when I didn't know a single face in the dining hall. I remember

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  ="alignright" width="225"] quogs in a 'metastable state'[/caption] spent more time ... languages for which you can check if something is in the language in ... problem in theoretical computer science is to prove whether P and NP are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  , where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH3k_JgSyTg[/embed] We started planning this in November-ish. We went ... needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure I've earned some confidence in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300 ... ), and the hot-headed Fisher (Jacob Pitts). Through "17 weekends" in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... years ago, while in the early months of it, I kept being asked why I was ... for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... moons embroidered in gold. I love celestial aesthetics for the idea that ... from Van’s Discount Fabrics in Chinatown for a sturdier lining. Always

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here ... longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so ... that says “Mark as Junk” that ends up being used in these circumstances

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the historically black organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA) in 1977. The second sorority ever founded at the Institute in 1980 was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  medical writing in particular. Emphasis is on writing clearly and accurately ... and its associated undergraduate major/minor in Science Writing. According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they ... toilet paper in the hall bathroom, should I replace it and how? What’s the ... make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... , most recently in 11.124 Introduction to Education. I loved hearing about ... , and I’m a sophomore in EECS. I also really love teaching. Unsurprisingly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016