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• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I ... until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... dance shows coming up this semester that I'm going to be participating in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  field trip to the MoMA in New York this past weekend to see the exhibit ... 'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... you'll find yourself replying to the following email: “Get outside the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  how to draw dotted lines in about 20 seconds, and you'd succeed 99.999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  In September 2021, when I posted about the new Welcome Center that is ... plans to move admissions over here back in 2015. Around 2019, as ... the Welcome Center a good front door to the Institute. In order to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... minutes and were pretty cool. Can't be compared to fireworks during New ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  bleed, making it harder to write in tight spaces) and write in neat ... might be relevant in order to fill in the rest of the space. To fit everything I want into a cheat sheet, I have to get my handwriting down to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Labs, a program that gives MIT students the chance to teach students in ... 't socially acceptable to wear there, so I can only imagine how hard it would be ... to be checked in, I watched the TV in the lobby. A woman reached into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... shot, but we decided to stop at my friend Cam's house in Vermont so the ... the Ben & Jerry's factory and got to sample a new mint fudge flavor

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... didn’t straight up bomb it and get that painful “fail-mail” in my inbox

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  older. This stands in stark contrast to our team which welcomed 25 new freshmen this year alone and prides itself on taking in people with little to ... studies to focus in excess of 80-100 hours per week on building their

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... me (be more open to new experiences! care less about academics!), but

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students ... Numbers 1: MEnging I graduated in June, but I'm not gone yet! Due to ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step-brother-in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  edifice to build that theory. To answer this we think in terms of languages ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... get a bit more complicated but this is related to the idea that there

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  primer on how to pray…Lucy said we pray in our heart, so I did.” “After ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i ... . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... testament to how well our communities have stuck together in the past year and ... the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025