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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of ... energized by our diversity, with a meritocratic openness to talent, culture

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  writer, but also a well-rounded student. He’s also known to be an ... from Weinerschitzel (or if I got a long break to travel the extra block ... family then shipped themselves to the extremely hot and conservative

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  define myself in a world where it grows increasingly harder to figure ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... 're relatively simple to find."]All my hard work,[/annotation] from early

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  using the most dangerous writing app, where you are forced to write in ... , when I met a guy with a strong grip and a strong accent. I ask where he ... South Africa on a mission trip to the Mamelodi Township near Pretoria. I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer?! (2010 Edition) Happy summer!

  

  a food picture) Please include: where you took the picture. (aka ... ) where you're from! anything interesting you would like to say about ... 'refrigerator'/blahblah I will post selected entries in a complete blog to come

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  “Kendall Cube,” a popular area for MIT students to find summer internships ... students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in ... sometimes makes it a tricky character to deal with. There is now a small group

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  three story fort, a roller coaster, a viking ship, and 3D twister. Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... This Sunday is the infamous East Side Party, which is open to the MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  5!) but also managed to find time to have a UROP, participate in the ... to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  all places, to find a cultural identity, and a cultural heritage. It ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live and work anywhere between 3 months to a year. Most MISTI programs also have a language requirement to prepare you for a serious language

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be ... the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture ... , Saturday Activities Fair, 1-3pm, Saturday CPW Closing Remarks and A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped ... Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after CPW) to all the different dorms. Each dorm makes a short video

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  moved to South Carolina (where they were from originally) and I left my ... planning a trip to see the physical sites I grew up visiting daily – my ... Anton, Chiriqui Province), and the home where I used to live – but the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... and asking "where would be a good match for me?" I was a good student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team ... Langer lab, where I UROP. I work for a post-doc on nanoparticle drug

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... visiting MIT (more on that in a sec), you'd probably find me poring over some ... weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... also cannot feel.) This year, as opposed to last year when I was a ... of the movies at midnight, or been to a book party, or even dressed up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you ... mentioned a couple of songs. I believe her words were: "If you're going to live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008