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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  any fire alarms (I heard that last semester, on the first day of 3 ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a different approach to the GIRs. Typically, freshman classes have huge

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  itself), which included a night out to Bartley's. On the first day of ... , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... organizations across the country. I first saw it at cnn.com/education, but it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk about these days are said weekends she's asked me to write something about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  to openness; it was something I could sense from my very first visit to ... I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... and Mesh Deformation To create a character, first we had to write code ... in the escape room to write our first ethnographies in the class, in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  ." This isn't the first time it's been mentioned to me. In fact, someone ... 't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  same routine as all the others. First, an ice breaker. It was meant to ... we didn’t know the first thing about. But it was fun–to spend my ... “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You ... a mix of anxious premeds and kids trying to convince their parents that going to grad school can be just as rewarding as going to med school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  my first hackathon! I applied to HackMIT with my friends from my summer ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... ’t either).          It’s upsetting to walk past rooms that belonged to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in conspiracy theory here, usually related to her gender]. History hasn't been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  one. Going to Disney World with Julie, Lulu, and Kat. It was the first ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  MIT is a weird school. Seriously. If I asked you to picture a normal ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at ... -fourths, which is one two three, one two three. you have to fit four steps in three ... footwork i was used to, so i thought about my form. two right turns. keep my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  . Research has demonstrated that first-generation-to-college students ... Admissions Counselor at MIT - providing information sessions to on ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  proactive by reaching out to the Brotherhood. Men of Alpha are the first of ... -Hellenic Council, Inc. ( NPHC also referred to as "The Divine 9") and the National ... community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  important people, and that's what I want to write about first. It's gonna be ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016