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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should ... finding the relevant sections yourself. To take this as a sign of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... during the weekend, there is a huge support system here at MIT to help you ... .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  three times a week to dance with their hiphop team! it was a good ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Get to know Tim the Beaver! Tim shows off some moves at an MIT men's ice hockey game

  

  spectators waited patiently for the Zamboni to finish during a men's ice hockey ... siezed the moment. To the 2016ers, here's what you can expect when you arrive on campus in a month and a half! Get pumped!

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... to wake up at 7:30, hit snooze a lot, and stumble into a cafe around 9 ... books. I’m racing to finish a manuscript of a book as yet unnamed, about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... into my gears of Decision Making. A friend, desperate to see each and ... to do, I went with her on a whim to what became the source of my wrench

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I need to supplement my diet with human food. So I took a picture of ... —there were too many clouds to have a long enough viewing window to appreciate ... or not to take a picture of it. Tuesday I sleep through breakfast. The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  I’ve decided I talk too much. I need to give some other people a ... the labs creating craziness in general, there really seemed to be a ... in a way that was outside classes really drew me to the program. Why

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... freestyle though, because sometimes you manage to get a line, or a verse, or a ... still has a nice ring to it. Loosely playing along, you start to knock out

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... with school related things Zoom - lol. things to do Pick up a new ... ideas, but anyway, I've been doing a lot of these things. I don't want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk ... requirements. i did a [annotation note="everyone at MIT has to take two

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  . I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk about this on a blogpost, but I know ... warning, ignoring my friends who were reaching out to me, and diving into a ... home with a mom and grandparents who loved me. I started to plan to leave

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  to the Bay Area, followed by a trip to the Rocky Mountains and finally ... interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their

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

  Bring Your Audience to Work Day In celebration of the annual Bring Your Audience to Work Day, the first Monday of…

  

  importantly, the least amount of employers willing to accommodate a paid ... microwave clock to realize that I got up a whole hour early, so I went back to ... stymied by a recycle bin. I had to throw the e-brake and move the darned

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  was involved with a class devoted to (re)designing the first ... and not, as every tour guide everywhere ever has lied to you, because a ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  adventurous enough to want to give Senior Haus a try!" Absolutely ... : "What if I tend to write meticulously enough for a paper to seem d ... does a great job of explaining what sort of folks are best matched to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for ... showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... of my Harvard classes overlapped with a weekly lab, and trusted me to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  ), and it felt weird to write on a blog about my MIT experience under a ... it was because I had a crush on this girl and running was ‘my time’ to ... day, sometimes twice a day. And going to interval training three times a

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... up to Susan Hockfield and said "May I give you a hug while not ... stop by and say hi to her! Also, a couple of years ago my floor (Conner

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a ... to learn more, there's always a place where you can jump in and help a ... food around, and live bands just to name a few details. The only hurdle

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008