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• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  type of place. I feel most at ease in a big city where I can get lost in ... my own leisure. I love public transport and seeing how its designed in ... . Turns out, yes, Italy is in fact [annotation note='no, I can’t explain

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras ... ! New this year: there are free apps (iPhone, Android) that students can ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , not really, I was just kidding." "No, seriously, you can bounce, get in ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... , and on Saturday evening I went out with James '11 and Sara '12 to buy

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  really great semester class-wise. I hope I can get three of these classes ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  can also keep in mind that I will be repaying tuition loans for the next ... Coulomb's Law. Did you know that I'm probably one of the few people in human ... minutes. Lance Armstrong, that is. (Just kidding. I can assure you that we

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  likely to stay in place, with major policy changes. When I ask how my ... ...” or “but their real motivation was...” I realize that the attitude, in ... capital ‘F’, is very different in places like Ethiopia. Instead, I am seeing

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table ... MIT alums in the movie: Colin Angle (iRobot co-founder), as Professor ... .007 competition at MIT. But I can be wrong, since I'm not that mech-E or EECS

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• 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 ... needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... everywhere (2:16). This dented a few of the cans and made a mess in the uhaul

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... ." Eek. Maybe I'll waltz in on Sept 6 and say "ALAN! Hello, Alan. Can I ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Last week, I blogged about 7.00: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  how to deal with all this guilt. or hi, i think i’m crazy, can i talk to ... , which i planned to go to, because i was too tired. i spent the time in bed instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in Organization (how I organize) Organizing Your Notes  (you will have tons) The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , last pset, last lecture, etc). I can’t help but feel a bit displaced ... . I have never regretted my decision to take a year off and study in ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... , "How much?" I said, "$25,000." This was back in 1964. He said: "Oh, no ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  campus, so you can also be involved in incredible projects like this. ... I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... is one of the most inspirational projects I've ever seen. It makes me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  , come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed ... this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty ... . Here are a few myths/traps. How do you know that you can't afford MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  fatigue in my legs. YOU CAN DO IT, I screamed to myself (in my head, not out ... know that I’ve put in the best that I possibly can today in whatever circumstances I find myself in, then I can rest easy tomorrow knowing that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  neither one can hide that I usually live my life lost in abstract ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That ... , which just about covered an entire 24x36in cardboard sheet. I filled the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017