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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  I certainly learned a lot from Dean Khoury's talk with us. For ... was considering colleges a decade ago, I had this same concern. So how ... before I came to MIT, but now, I don't have much of a problem telling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  realized i had a bunch of unfinished work for my UROP. hanging over my head for the week was half of a 14.121 pset that i'd gotten stuck on. if mit ... let me take a second to talk about the week i've had: last thursday

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  application process shall be completed soon. For now, here's a message from TIM ... ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... for Palestine," and it was hosted by Palestine @ MIT. I was this close

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... and feeling woozy, and fell asleep for about 14 hours. Upon waking, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  fast pace I had always hoped for in high school, where we weren ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn ... from The Martian. But he also thinks about the world's problems a lot ... the advice he got from Bill Clinton a decade ago: “turn toward the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my ... I can pretend it was from dedication); I was there from 9 AM to 6 PM ... Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  ; In the main, we are looking for bloggers with good judgment who can ... in the office and serve as a shibboleth for student culture. We pay you for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest.   Please note that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  well; I had just come back from FLP (Freshman Leadership Program), a ... can really set a pattern for your time at MIT. My advice: choose your ... I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  there was a fraternity out there for me. The choices that I made certainly ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their ... to MIT, I never really saw myself as a sorority girl, although I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... 're only looking for this from students with something to report -- so if you ... of the essays from the Part 2. The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  . I have pictures from my vacation for a future entry. For now, I have ... friday for this lab, but with the 8.06 deadlines this week I'm not sure I ... derive the energy eigenvalues for a hydrogenic atom. Pretty kickass, right

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... Hi there, blog readers! Now that we're a week into IAP, I have a ... for "remote hunters" - people participating from distant cities and such

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  During the first week of IAP, I took a class known as ESD.054 ... week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  .007 Robot Competiton where 32 finalists from 153 entrees compete in various ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... FIRST Robotics, a popular engineering program for middle and high

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  ’s MIT-speak for “undergraduate research”), I work with a team of awesome ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ... . *** Q: Tell me a little about yourself. A: I’m Vaishnavi, a junior in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Last Saturday, when I should be working on a model of a performance space for my architecture studio, I got a call from my friend saying that Lifehouse is performing for free across the river. I decide to take an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  undergraduates living in the dorms. I went on that trip for the first time today, and now I have enough apples that it would be wasteful for me not to eat apple-based meals for the next few days... or weeks. While I enjoy both

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019