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• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  is included in the term "extended family," and she thinks it's great ... - because it is an insanely awesome/amazing/fantastic place. But it is still a ... 's pretty cool. Anyway, this is just a basic, introductory level bio class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  class in MIT's programming sequence, which is also, in fact, not 6.0002. I ... destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A ... order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... Claus, Miley Cirus......, it really doesn't matter who is writing out the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  bitterly cold out, so as soon as i got home, i bundled myself in a ton of blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and ... ; The Vagina Monologues is a play about female sexuality and empowerment

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• 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…

  

  Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... interruption. In the end, he graduated with a quadruple major (this is no longer allowed -- now the maximum is a double major): SB in Chemical Engineering

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it ... /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... people, and never showering. This is definitely not the case - as a matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won ... -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  ). The idea is not to play hero and to attack a mugger with a gun who would ... game is someone who used to occasionally comment on this blog a long time ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... student, a pretty strong student, who's definitely overcome some challenges

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... accepted for admission, it is not a reflection on your skill as a parent, nor ... is not admitted to his or her first-choice school. In the face of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early Action and received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied ... graduate). Your intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a ... . What I mean is, if, hypothetically speaking, everyone in a class got an A ... an A is very hard in most classes. C people are not encouraged to drop

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time ... I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  some media has spun--that he is a sex addict who wanted to kill sex ... also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you ... . This is, after all, a community designed for and about you. When I began ... you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  affect over the student body. Taught in a peculiar fashion, TEAL is the ... weak background in Chemistry, everyday is something new. Covering a wide ... peer review is a class wide one. Three students in the class hand in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  , in MIT lingo, is “accelerated” Calculus I, meaning we get a whirlwind ... Ahh!!! This blog is finally happening! I think my bio page gives a ... telling me to schedule a makeup exam. But it’s more like this is not exactly

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  is maliciously seduced in a moment of weakness.” If it were only for ... / I'm a polymath, a pain in the ass, a massive pain / Madison is Banquo ... note: did you know that MIT is a world-class school for humanities as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -de-lis. Manchego, a type of cheese, is named for a region in Spain called La Mancha ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021