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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes that tools will appear if the idea is planted in you. Learn about poetry

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... a lot of effort. In general, problem sets take me 8+ hours, with a max ... my learning. And, the most recent pset was about space cows—how cool is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... summer, the goal is to have a strong data set to back up statements of how ... . Because summer time is a time for growth. Growth in whatever way you choose

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... us in the Admissions Office has a particular group of programs that we ... them about their experiences. In addition we've enlisted the help of a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  from back then is a conversation with a nice man on the elevator— “How do ... for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... free from anxiety. This semester is pretty unique for me. I am studying

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  , the police brutality. another reason is much more tangential: just a ... Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep ... working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001 ... Corridor may be, begs some introspection. In fact, so extreme is the coupling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my ... 't recognize them at all in person. I grabbed my badge, bought a t-shirt and ... started grabbing free goodies. This is when I saw my first internet

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  "attempted interview" code. This is pretty much equal in status to the ... . ------------------------------------- Sam wrote, "Is it necessary for me to send in a CSS Profile before the ... in a science fair. But It is true that most applicants have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  So I had a little free time this morning so I paid a little visit to ... baseball cards in my kindergarten days. I guess the whole point is MIT looks ... , and got H A's in my entire life. I applied and got into MIT. Someone

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ! Having not tapped in half a decade (!!), I was definitely pretty ... serendipitous run-in with Jorge, a current sophomore who taught our friends and I ... Bhangra! Bhangra is a style of dance from the Punjab area of India, and it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  arriving at MIT, you might harbor the notion that it is a magical place where ... honeymoon is over and you find out that it is a lot of work. The work is ... after the A or B in the course; instead, I went for understanding the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... join their ____ club. Issue #3: With over 500 events in a single weekend ... trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  interested in seeing how it'd adapt to a virtual format. after spending an hour ... my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because ... 're asked to pay attention to how our feet are in contact with the ground, to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  Burger King commercial: This one Anticipated method of death: "In a ... in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog ... from Sam, whose mind is a creative vesicle of survey questions just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  , and the sum of parts is always greater than the whole. I gained a much ... witches element, but I learned so much more. Irish folklore is quite vibrant ... — which has become a common archetype in many fantasy and YA novels — but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week ... various dimensions of MIT's diversity. MIT is a melting pot of ideas, people

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... still think of myself as very much a beginner in the world of dance, and ... choreographers. In December, we perform at DT shows, which is a blast (looking at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  to say it might have been the best food that i’ve had in a while. we ... actually notice that 3 is not 7 (not even to the nearest 7, which is a TRAVESTY), which is why i said uh clickbait included i guess. we take a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024