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• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print ... . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... of the parents and the girlfriend was often only suitable after a long period of dewy-eyed joy and the calls to the superior ones about the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... you might imagine, MIT is near the top in terms of total money awarded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree ... 've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   ... Commencement from one of the many auditoriums livestreaming it.   Can ... was able to listen to the speakers. Arolyn Conwill, president of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  economic implications. The program offers a master's degree and undergraduate ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality ... their adamantine purity despite the passage of time. As Diana Henderson

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  The MIT Office of Minority Education (OME) provides a home base for ... the ultimate goal of developing leaders in the academy, industry, and society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  Well, look at that, the dawn of a new Monday. Light is gracing the ... ] There are leaves all over the courtyard, various shades of green to yellow ... from the beds of fallen foliage. Funny, I don't remember this scene

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  . Then there's the feeling of relief. Whew - I don't need to cram 6 classes ... I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was ... Miller, was out of town today, so the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... on the East Coast, slowly moving across the US into the West Coast by 9pm EST. The best part of my job was calling students who were ecstatic

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30 ... -D humanities class, so lots of people take it, course 9 or not. In the student evaluation guide, the class consistently gets a rating of 6 (out of 7), and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... basically a Twitter feed. I hope you appreciate the enormity of this sacrifice ... prototype of the Braille Label Maker, her 2.009-turned-thesis project which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming ... course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I ... one, knowing that the action of choosing will change me in an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of ... ridiculous amount of sidequests, so I’m going to list the ten that I definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  is in the West Lounge on the second floor of the Student Center (which ... . Accuweather says it's supposed to be 40s-50s and mostly sunny for the rest of ... , do we sleep on the floor of our host's dorm, or are we actually getting

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT Grad Student”. I start my second year of a dual degree program in ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route ... Courses 1-24 (with the exception of Course 19 (which was called Metallurgy ... Languages, then Foreign Literature & Linguistics.)) A history of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007