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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  April, a group of four sophomores, who are all incoming GEL students, won ... behind their victory, you ask? Sarah and Marie are two course X (chemical ... recognition, so that’s where Sarah and Marie learned a lot of the basics of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  you take so many AP classes?" "Do you ever have free time?" "Are you ... parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP ... that APs are important because of weighted grades and class rank. Um

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public ... told my friends there were free ice cream sundaes every Monday in ... Spaniard Manolo, and that there are palm trees on the sixth floor of our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  Wellness Fair and gathered a backpack full of free swag. Last Friday, the Frosh participated in a human-robot interaction study, where she was asked ... , experiences are all squeezing into her days. A mere common cold could shatter

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  startup, because it highlights why my classes are helping prepare me for ... undergraduate students which made it quite fun—grad students often have different perspectives and are usually more grounded in their ideas (both good and bad

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  biological systems are so fine-tuned that biologists can only push research ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... that you would do it for free, then you've hit the jackpot. Speaking of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  , and many of my weekends this semester are probably going to follow a ... . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... drinking this smoky drip brew I just made that has a really intense, fruity

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  in over summers. This summer, I think I've made a reasonably sized dent because I've been attempting to partition my work time and my free ... aren't all the metrics that a game is usually evaluated on but are the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  . How many users are we gaining or losing? Where are users coming from ... as you are about to enter the interview process and you know where you ... Practices Take Home Assessments Where do I start? Resources My Personal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  someone's house there for free. enough people defected to San Diego that I ... ="burton conner communities, as you might imagine. burton 3rd is where i lived ... of money on Ubers. oops! the bridge view made it super worth it, though

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  fall off beneath the plane is exhilarating to me. It makes me feel free ... around and enjoy the simple things you have. When you pack, you stay where you are and hate all the excess stuff you've got. Anyway, not long

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  be like, I would probably have said "free sewing study hall", with ... are never neutral--even the smallest little detail tells you something ... someone who they are." That resounded with me, because that's why I love to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , most people who make it through this place. My calls only made it ... this problem as prefrosh, and while I'm not going to say "omg we are ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to me to risk judgment by other people. The fact that there are things ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking ... life. If you made it past everything up there, congratulations--now I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  .  MIT truly is a place where you are forced to drink from the firehose ... end, I made a really cool visualization modeling the Brownian motion of ... thing where the drop date for the class is extended until the next

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  students are formative or summative, and 11.129 is more likely to talk about ... sherhorosko.wordpress.com So, the question we were asked in class is, where ... catalog and let me know what classes interest you (and what you are

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  you currently own a nintendo switch, are willing to spend $60, and think you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  deadlines coming up quickly. All three are open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... enrichment summer program for promising high school juniors who are interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  ="234"] the dishes we made are in the foreground[/caption] The ... like, our dining halls are better than Annenberg if you're considering ... note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  actually made me wish that I had been born a size zero woman so I could rock ... out free cookies on the first day of classes every term. That was all I ... MIT paid for it. Also, I remembered that days in Germany are supposedly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006