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• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate ... in the world. I didn't know that we actually had to debate each other

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  in Google with the same intention, Atatiana Jefferson, Alton Sterling ... even in my quiet quarantined home. Tears, anger, frustration… I had been ... peacefully arrested in their homes for murder and aggravated assault of Amaud

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  was ten, and I was in fifth grade, and now I am twenty, and I am in ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was ... her caseload and no one specializing in college applications, I was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ceramic mushroom that we dub our memory mushroom, in which we place various ... , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  post.   Can I interest you in some background information for the ... it's on Memorial, it's actually on Amherst.) Some kind soul lets me in through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... exposed had that effect. But I was in a rush when I moved out. Plus I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  website, and email him expressing interest in the class. Step 4: Find the ... form. Step 10: Give in said form to the registration office in Mass ... Art. And right before we were done talking, Danny asked, "Just wondering, in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• 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

  

  . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... wanted more in that moment than a continuous data stream documenting my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include ... ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes ... 390 (Undergraduate) 7.S930 (Graduate) Special Subject in Biology ... experience in communicating through a digital format. Enrollment limited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in ... forgotten in dingy, cobwebbed boxes and heard them sigh with relief at renewed ... alone in my room, listening to the air-conditioner buzz, my body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... trickled in, and sat down. Ashley welcomed us to the course, and explained

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  the Midyear Report. Note that there is also an option in the Report for ... to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... free to write in bullet points or more casual language. We're really not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could ... much beloved former Communications Director Ben Jones in 2004, was a ... Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  So, as I mentioned in my previous entry, my GEL classes don't have p ... track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... signs. (for the record, the first one spells out "ATACK 'MM" as in "ATTACK

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... . Good call, guys. We students in the class knew he wrote a well-known book in 1996, but he never really discussed it and that was that. Fast

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007