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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  something I love and have it count for credit! In addition to those classes ... Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you ... physics, grade a few papers, and in exchange I get to say I helped teach a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the ... , I can tell you that this year, we denied les than half that number ... 't set any target for that number. We won't have a final count of regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  A few weeks ago, I had the best weekend in recent history. Of course ... unexpected details go a long way in raising your spirits. For me, that little ... sums of several hundreds. It could get crazy in there and it wasn’t hard

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news ... this is very cool in and of itself -- there are not too many schools in ... is very interested in what sets MIT students apart from students at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  beautiful mankind can be. Because these are people that have had to live in a ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  . More Things to Do Before You Graduate: 1. Participate in Dorm Rush (or ... , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  faster, cheaper, and better for the environment, you can conveniently visit ... now, and for you, too. I said this earlier in the annotations, but ... , you can still sign up for virtual information sessions and tours here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  length of time. You end up bundling up so much that you can't actually ... hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  . You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... to the students in my CMS class about the RIAA lawsuits that were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since ... worked on biotech and crypto and psych. you can literally do anything you ... unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  can hurt me--and they do. (8) You're the best man I'll ever know. There ... afraid if you see something unfamiliar." Whatever happened to fair dealing? And pure ethics? And nice manners? (1) Given their advantages, you may

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  direct sunlight. The day becomes dark and you can see the stars. Some animals might even get confused and you could hear crickets chirping or ... Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  you're not in the Boston area, Brian recommends learning from Robert ... to attend 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II) office hours, but instead I found ... club, is a sophomore majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Music, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... quirky little hole-in-the-wall bookstore (in my friend's words, "it has ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  being a blogger, which, lol). But for tonight, though, you can watch the ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  we think that keeping in touch with you guys on a personal level makes ... . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... for everyone - via the blog.) As for what you can do... Marilee has

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  -black polymeric complexes that stick in your reactor and prevent you from operating ... our defective sand bath back to New Jersey. You can read all about it ... -smelling jobs we'd ever had. Have you ever been to a mushroom barn, like in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... an envelope and dropped it in the mail. If you were an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... some juggling in my other classes. Day 13: Adventure time in Florence ... Pre-trip background: IAP (Independent Activities Period) in Pavia

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018