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• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... spirit. Why yes, it is my 19th birthday. How’d you know? While true, that

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  short stories; I tend to story-build in such a way that I gravitate toward longer works. I encourage all those who are interested in writing, and ... write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  years, there have been 89 30 Under 30 MIT alumni. I was interested in knowing how what industries Forbes thinks MIT is innovating the most, so I marked down which category each alum was in. (I'm taking Stats this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  intermittently ever since IAP. In fact, I was able to get a taste of neuroscience ... relocating to Boston College over the summer, I've had my hands full in chasing ... I find another UROP? Will I be working in a Brain and Cognitive

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It ... Institvte-wide snowball fight study break in Killian Court? I'm told ... that I hate the word "epic" but still used it should tell you how epic it

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  't learn in 8.02 was how 3D glasses worked, so I decided to Google it. How ... in my Boston experience, I walked around for 5 minutes and did not find ... that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  graduate application process, mimics this transition in a way. We first would ... four years ago when we were seniors in high school, and we're sure many ... , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... room is in the basement and doesn't have the greatest lighting- so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... to the end of my third year here, I am astounded by how easily ideas ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  , one in science. If you haven't yet fulfilled these requirements, I ... can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... of text, and the fact that it’s in French, I’m pretty easily spending ... lot of documentation in my future! Most notably: A few weekends ago, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... the calendar. Postseason: where we play in our conference tournament

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... and I'm going to try to beat it tonight before finals really set in ... majors (this post is long overdue, I know). In the mean time, if you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... "]FPOPs[/annotation] that I participated in or TA-ed, like my trips to Yellowstone. While not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... mixed with the remains of over 100 shattered pumpkins in McDermott Court ... 54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly, unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... conditions of women at MIT. I have personally witnessed a shortage of women in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and feeling like my world was in fact ending but this is okay, I passed and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018