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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... , Vassar St. is not a highway. It's barely an alley. You just called it a highway because you almost got hit by a car. I also like how you arbitrarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ... a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a ... we have grown the last three. Because if this is how far we have come

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... bunch of papers in a short period of time is just an intimidatingly large ... roofdeck crew with 89/115 pages read. This is maybe a strange definition

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  what? Not everyone in the population is a drug dealer. So tell the story ... as a guest professor here, and is now a good friend and mentor to me) recently and we talked about writing and how to make a living at it. I think

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  and is the third of its kind. Its main focus is to see how children ... ou?", or "How old are you?", but since my French is pretty lacking I ... is seen as a status symbol here, and even though everyone speaks Creole

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... cheesy goofball that I am and walk to class.   *(fantabulous is not a ... a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  MIT read Slashdot too?" Of course =) Akash wrote, "How is [Biological ... application (is that called a supplement?) to admissions@MIT almost one and a half week ago. However, i havent got a reply yet. How can i find out if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  heard this class is more breadth than depth so I'm not sure how much I ... Friday class. Also it meets every day which is a lot wtf. 6.C35 Interactive ... (er) effort. Cons: I don't really know how much I would gain from this class. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  -20…and apparently got a spot.” "This service leadership program" is ... lists, since that’s how a lot of MIT student groups advertise). I figured ... IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic

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

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... is a definitive end, and a specific course of understanding. Here on ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn ... of people yell "I'm in!" back at you (The Pour House is a bar ... I've never seen before, and there was a summer camp that I think is

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  far away.  That is, it is about a mile and a half down Massachusetts ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a ... ; Here is a picture of a derpy cat to help with staying happy: And here

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  listened and watched as this happened, amazed at how well a single song had ... described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I love her, was a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... answering questions like: Is it possible to graduate without ever writing a final exam? (Yes) Is it possible to have a [annotation note="The average

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... different (how did she DO that??? It was soooo cold, and imagine reading a ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But then the #8 seed was Dave Shin '05, who is apparently like a superhero or ... that things started seriously rocking out. I had a list of my favorite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can ... hour after a 1pm class? Great! Time was so much more nebulous, and I existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can ... : "That is correct. Congratulations!" =D This is so much fun. ... Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... . We've set up a recovery fund to ease some of that burden, and much of ... Ann Whalley are very much a part of this family. All funds will go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  else is also hoping will get bitten by a snake on this plane, is sitting ... will know how to run a database while integrating a Taylor polynomial and ... . You think about smiling too much, laughing too hard, telling them you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006