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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  interested in the material and can therefore contribute and participate more ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily ... So while I like to pretend that I don't procrastinate sometimes, up

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even ... time zone mismatches and Zoom fatigue got in the way of calling. I took

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I ... expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... , Asymptones, NaNoWriMo—but I enjoyed the camaraderie, enjoyed learning how to ... story still sticks in my mind. I've told it over, and over, in a way such

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps For the Deferred what to do next

  

  experiences. Can I call / email / owl in to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... interview has passed. How can I contact the office if I must? Same ways as ... as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action (RA). I've had a number

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... got locked into a narrow tunnel vision in which I only valued the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10 ... before the meeting. 11:30am. I arrive in Ann Arbor a little early, so I go ... , 2008 The next couple days, I visit a few high schools in the area, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  briquettes (a dense fuel dominant in developing countries). They can be used instead of modern fuel sources in electricity-scarce regions. I’ll spend ... often rooted in the unknown. Fire spinning was foreign to me, and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  address, and seeing how different just 25 people in the class interpret and ... .   MISC. In addition to all those classes, I'm helping students in 2 ... all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though....very soon...

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  crucial to our nation's defense rejuvenated my enthusiasm in ROTC and I can ... Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent ... lead and how much they contribute to our Air Force. In ROTC, during the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  mentioned that I know "exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... my sophomore year of high school. I went to a small school back in ... interested in doing something with EECS, so for the dream college section, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a solution, I openly annotate my own example sheet for discussion in ... work. You can choose how involved you want to be, and no one really minds

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... indicator of just how hosed you're going to be. To put this in perspective ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  undergrads that you can't find in most classes. The first opportunity is an ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... blowing how far people branch off after GIRs. I swear the course 2's are

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman ... example, the other night, I finally met Laura '09 in person, discovering her ... ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... faculty and the school in general, Dr. Kornbluth talked about how getting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  them in more detail than I will if you’re interested in learning more ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18 ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  gaps that I can fill in between classes, which, as a sophomore, are ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011