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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously making the syntax way more complicated than necessary. It’s just a way to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was ... semester 21W.758 was a class that covered a multitude of genres but stuck to ... transitioned to comics by deciding, after drawing Demonology 101, that was a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry. I came to MIT wanting to be a mechanical engineer. I love building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... opportunity to really dig in and research a topic of your choosing related to ... on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year ... sorely needed the experience. It took a long time for me to realize that ... /or volunteered to do it on their own - a particularly difficult pset, a band

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally ... , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... ; Scott proceeded to explain FOMO, a very valid and prevalent fear among MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... strategic locations as to create the most natural and flattering look for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... algorithm understand taste Comments from the blogger: i listened to a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... everyone has to take to graduate"]GIRs[/annotation] and a class essentially ... multivariable calc before, but that turned out to not put me at a disadvantage

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student ... transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... local television, my dad mentioned the word “fridgey” when referring to a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  : Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions ... to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005