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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  . It wasn't until a few months ago that I rediscovered an interest in ... . Coding (almost) every day I wrote a 1.8k-word post about how tough ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two days to pack, and one night when Javi and I will order Thai food from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  are still in the mail, but we're excited about the Class so far! I'll provide some data about the Mittens (MIT-Tens, as coined by Stephanie in the ... week. When I get a chance, I'll post telling you what's in there. In the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... very least, it will make you question how the world around you works. In

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  concentration at MIT in education through this set of classes. I encourage you to ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I ... Bergen Record wrote: Nobody cuts Mr. Goodman's class. In Robert Goodman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... students just how awesome the humanities and arts are here. I had great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  included making decisions for how the proposed dining hall for W1 would ... Here's the story: Long ago, in a land far far away (far from Hawaii ... Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  participate in the program. “Is this the button that opens the door? I really ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  up on first impressions… I’m constantly in awe at how different someone ... leave for FPOPs, orientation, and the like! I was just thinking about last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in ... , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... that some deadlines are very, very soon. I wouldn't want to tell you how

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  improve that much in terms of how much I could lift; my workouts weren ... " align="alignnone" width="400"] how I'm trying to be in 2024[/caption ... . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to ... and I’m thrilled to share my story with you. I was born in Vietnam ... which I’ve called home the past 12 years. Growing up in California, I

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Last summer, when I lived in East Campus and these were my backyard ... and cheeses live. In fact, I drew them in pencil, traced them in pen, scanned them in Hayden Library, and recorded my screen with Quicktime as I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... unpredictable times in the evening. I’d immediately sit down to compose frantic ... success. I expected a bright solution. “Maybe it would be better if you took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  , winner of the Nobel Prize in 2001. I think I would have asked them to ... swap places--in 1990. Now I don't know about you, but I think this is ... EDIT: Matt mentioned there was a lecture in 10-250 by Prof. Schrock. I

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  applicants: I feel your pain. In a perfect world, I would be an investigative ... final class for my Education (Course 11) concentration. Just in case, I ... of SOC-STD 98LH. In the end, I couldn't take Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  start my own project. I remember how cool I felt when I first told my ... never told them but I like to pretend that they cared. But, in all ... thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my friends and ask how they're doing. do this regularly (toons does this ... friends to do things that i want/need to do and sometimes they will say yes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got ... wrestling can't be the only thing all 4000 of us have in common. I just don ... hear, they like human beings. Can't blame them. I have this idea in my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005