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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from ... ." There are a variety of ways to take these courses. Each of the science ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  kindness friday live blog! a day of vital importance

  

  4-hour Zoom lectures on Tuesday nights).  It’s coming to a close now ... hours.  5:30 - Woke up. I have a vibrating alarm clock because I used to have a terrible sleep schedule and was completely immune to my alarm

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • April 17, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be ... be a good start, since I don't want to break my streak of at least a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics ... . Each group has a computer to enable the learning process. Most of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  details than you could ever want, don't worry). To summarize, here's a map ... . On January 2, I flew to DC for a huge astronomy conference. There, I ... a 60L hiking backpack onto my shoulders and flew to Quito, the capital

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A ... line. A nice man gave me a form to fill out and pointed me to a nice lady

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a ... paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  Congratulations to Italy on their World Cup victory. The celebration was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  words: “Do you wanna… …build a snowman?” Yes! Yes! And so we set to work. He showed me how to create the base—start with a hard-packed ball ... him Olaf. But we had to. We returned to Random, cutting through a bunch

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  Angeles to Boston, returning a little later from my Thanksgiving break than ... old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The ... that I've grown to dislike my time in California. Only a little bit ago I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... find a UROP," I was watching Cartoon Network and trying to score free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... stamp all over a package to be sent  through an airport. (This was tested

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... ? Hacksaw? Russ will always know where to find it. Everyone's getting a bit ... that he'll be heading to his alma mater West Point next year, as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... 't forget to add in a HASS each term, and try not to schedule more than one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  shape and make a good faith effort to inform us of your circumstances, we ... both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview ... probably important to get some information out there for people regarding the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... when a lot of people seem to enter a mindset of now what? You’ve prepared ... your other work. Mine was learning to longboard, a couple friends of mine

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... to a three-week neuroscience-focused summer camp when I was 15. It was ... . When it came time to choose a school, I felt like it was easy for me to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  almighty MIT time. MIT time is a rule that applies to [annotation note ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... architecture/woodworking/crafts nerd, I knew we had to go on a tour; I spent the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019