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• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... that everyone can see units dramatically exploding on the map during the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO ... talk in September of last year, you might've gotten this exact water ... that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  on the admissions website. What I will do, however, is let the dorms ... bit in that regard. Allow me to introduce, Beaver Scope! According to ... . That's right, it's a website that breaks down Wikipedia page edits by MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... confidence in that statement comes from the friendly little place under the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  UROP in the O'Connor Lab. The lab's a part of the chemistry department ... involves techniques in molecular biology as well as biochemistry and organic chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... : In the United States, however, experts say the increasing stress of ... I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... : In the United States, however, experts say the increasing stress of ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  schedule has been pretty set in stone since the first week of classes, but ... I should start as the only blogger in [annotation note="civil and ... spreadsheet. It is my equivalent of decorating a bullet journal or buying fancy

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs ... all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "]Notion,[/annotation] or Dynalist, or whatever other popular strategies people swear by. In a ... 'm taking [annotation note="a difference of 23 units! but unfortunately still ... activities. The classes: 6.031, Elements of Software Construction (15 units

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  team, taking 16.810-- a 6-unit class called ‘Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  taking the class with Ceri R. ’16, two people who live on my floor in ... /conflict unit, we read Friends With Boys, a graphic novel by (Eisner Award winning ... Boys in comics class a few weeks ago, we focused mainly on how Faith Erin

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I ... . Anyway, this footnote doesn’t actually have any information in it. But the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or ... tradition.  Every freshman class has a Ring Committee, who put in tons of time ... specific set design). In February of sophomore year, the design is announced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  seasoning, which gives nice variation in flavor. making websites, as last ... spend that time with their families. or in my case, on campus. what do they do? well, here's what's happened in my iap so far: staying inside

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring ... forward in leaps and bounds. Then we considered the elephant. He is wise

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015