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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... thus the pace is certainly more intense for a given semester at MIT

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  chainsaw.  But, for the month of June, we worked together to code the game ... against the other schools during the finals in the ISS.  For some ... player, and waited anxiously for a little over a week for the competition

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  Hopper Celebration is the largest conference for women in computing ... . When I applied for the TechX scholarship, I was really excited about ... remarks made by Microsoft's CEO. In the most striking case for me, Yoky

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... slowing down this contagion process the most was the fact that for late ... a little bit of everything, and for the rest of my life I will be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... 's required IB scores. For the IB, we will only consider Higher Level (HL ... answer three of the most frequently asked questions here and now, so that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted in Early Action.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now:     Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  available and stored wind power for their locomotion. For the past 20 years ... "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  world. The streets were full of tourists. It felt like REX, but for art ... [/caption] All told, that was lovely. Which brings me to my intentions for the ... love everything that’s going on — the classes I’m signed up for, in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  year-old beloved pet bunny, had to go to the vet for a tooth trim ... travel across the Atlantic for a work trip. Actually this was quite ... -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  live in singles. You can stay in the same single for as long as you want ... ; unlike "home", here I cannot define the difference for you, because I don ... random person in the hallway and mistake them, just momentarily, for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  many stay in this country for life, repaying the American promise of ... support for our Muslim friends and colleagues. As an immigrant and the child ... \     Protests erupted all over the country yesterday

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  above the average Planning out classes for next semester Thoughts of ... about Things to do for the future get over imposter's syndrome ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Kennebunk, Maine. The sand was the perfect dampness for writing, so I proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... the mid-60s!). This is the view from Simmons' 8th floor terrace. F) My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  separation from boxes of expired Life*. *A lucid metaphor for the fate of the ... murmured tingle of glucose, fulfills the freshman's unspoken need for comfort ... barging inside one morning, asking the waitress for the semi-secret Sichuan

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M.Eng program in Course 6 is something students can apply for in their junior year

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  for the [annotation note="That's fine! I love Windows 7 and they ... reveal some of the things I know for sure I will be blogging soon, as a ... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA   And it seems like I'm going to be leaving the blogs with a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... being taught the same way for over 18 semesters there are a ton of ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008