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• 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

  

  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 ... with the schedule of speakers and topics. You can sign up for the course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  should care about? is there a good reason I should feel obligated to ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... it’s a septum piercing, you can easily hide it if you need to by just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at ... , here’s to a delicious sophomore year! My hope is that I can feed myself

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  one is fully your own. You can better take responsibility for your ... reading in a local cafe to taking a train over to another country. They can ... glow. I’m sitting on a cold concrete slab, where the tides would normally

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  Wikipedia would have an article on it. Well, there you go. It's a really good ... it seems like as long as you pass the tryouts you can play. Just a note ... , especially if you have a leadership role or can speak about how it's changed

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  applications a year. The applications where the student is being genuine, where ... whatever it might be for you. Your time is your most valuable resource, and ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  to a total of 20 pages written. Every paper you write is then peer ... I talk about (Casting) is about a module from this seminar where we ... 've been coveting. What exactly is a PSET notebook you might ask, and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  , “Okay, cool! I’ll just learn CS there.” College is that place where you ... describe it, other than that you can put it in a Venn Diagram with my other ... the center: "activities where you create things." I don't know. There

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  body of water Brad had promised (signed a legally binding contract) to ... can't really go wrong with any of the FPOPs, as long as you do one - especially if you go and check the others out (if you can; obviously if you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  Yup, there's a swim test! There's an awesome variety of physical ... requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  , but I'm just making a point. Is there any doubt that you'll learn more ... times until you're done. How is this different? One fish at a time. With ... you can't say for sure. So if you didn't get caught, there's nothing to

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance 'Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my ... .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... were told that there are a lot of rules we need to keep in mind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... daunting problem sets and computers that can't love you back. Cats also have ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... rigorous," but it hints at how even a music class can embrace technology in ... technology. You can find all music courses offered here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... communities care about, there’s a lot of goodwill you can tap into as long as ... effectively a wage slave. If all you end up doing is nursing the money, without

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  ported. That being said, you can buy a Macbook Pro, dual-boot it with ... that is useable but will be outdated soon. If you're buying a new laptop ... , like Best Buy, even give you your money back in store credit for a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... sessions and campus tours are cancelled. You can read more on the MIT ... It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There is a free-food at mit dot edu mailing list, just ... for one hour per day. Depending on the semester, there is usually a 9 AM ... that there was a super-special information session that afternoon where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  , there's a lot college has to teach you - calculus lessons, life lessons, or otherwise - and the best thing you can do is to let it. (Do you ... overheating - to a great song. I tried anyway, though.) You can, however, take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007