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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... Taylors and an MIT Orientation Leader 2006 shirt, wondering where the heck the building numbers are and why my recitation ('scuse me, "section") is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  Square Shopping Center! Hooray! Suddenly I knew where I was. I walked ... Mass Ave. There are shorter ways from Porter to MIT than Mass Ave. I ... , resolving not to look at any more addresses until I'd made substantial

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Who: Natasha Elinor Grace Balwit When: Summer 2014 Where: La Villa ... . Yesterday, as we made circles in an empty school parking lot, the sky stormed ... one, now. "You already are," he said as he shook my hand. "Chill out

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  ! Remember that you are AMAZING and where you end up doesn't affect that. ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo ... 2.009 presentations so much? Well... this class is what made me decide

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

   (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors ... are just starting to cover the materials that are necessary to complete ... '12): Which all-in-all made my Tuesday night (or Wednesdy, early

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  , Massachusetts fared very well in the rankings, boasting three cities that made it ... river from where MIT is. The sixth geekiest city was Lowell, Massachusetts, with 14.1% of all working people in STEM occupations. Are you wondering

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  account. This made me really happy, because I'm a super dork who loves libraries.) Where are these books? Strewn all over my floor, obviously. The ... just leave you with this visual of things that are consuming my life

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  gratitude to Zahir Dossa, whose class made our project possible; to the Public ... after we found out that the hotel where we were planning to stay had been ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don't know where Clay got the idea he could fill out a pair of leather pants

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and colder and hungrier) and a whole host of possibilities are available that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now ... ?!?!?! Where have you been? D: LOL. I’m doing well. Super busy, but I’m okay. Q ... of money that the schools give you. Now, I’m no fool… D: Are you sure

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  bounds are incorrect. Here's a visualization where I use [annotation note ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... . We kept getting graded differently for questions where our answers had

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  amazing! From chilling in Simmons, where I remember pulling all nighters ... call a "CHILL" day :) I settled down in Hamsika's dorm (where I met her ... ! Following the minority dinner I headed over to the CPW Welcome where Hamsika

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  merit aid (free registration required) On to the questions... FWD wrote ... ). Other schools that are the Beavers include Oregon State U, hockey ... asked, "sorry about the unrelated question, but are you going to phoenix

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  , there are serious exceptions where poverty prevails. Here's what goes on ... write about China, where I've spent the last two summers and last two IAPs and where I'll be heading off to again sooner or later. The first three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... :  (metaphorical) There are no ceilings. When I was in high school, I knew (in some ... for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to Budget where my rental car was supposed to be waiting for me. I ... car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches are practically inevitable. And truth be told, somehow I just don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  audience. (Once you've been at MIT for a while, there are only so many non-MIT people who are still interested in the minutiae of your MIT life. My ... to marry than 7.31. Prospectives, thankfully, are not quite so boring

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  semester, when I made more reasonable choices, I would have more time to do ... time when I ever have free time to use as I please. Right now, there ... this free time to do more work. That's not the most healthy mindset, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  get it. Also, the grade cut-offs are ridiculous in this class, where an ... 2:25[/annotation] and Wednesdays for [annotation note="Recitations are non-lecture sessions where an undergraduate or graduate TA go over the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020