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• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... would you describe what and how you hope to teach (in this class and ... check out the syllabus and recommended readings so you can follow along at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this ... doing as many things as you can if you have the option of doing them. If ... : I know you read these sometimes. Hi :D). It was one of the best

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  internet. However, you can't go around making embarrassing entries like this ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  other languages. Talking fluently in a language you don't speak natively ... fluent Spanish and is looking to practice English. You can then meet up on ... website where you can make a profile, search for people with complimentary

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... database, I mean my brain) – PYTHON. As you can probably imagine, I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  If you're the only person in a room and you have psychological and ... else before hosting people. You can cultivate whatever vibe you want ... effect on what kind of socializing can occur in them. In BC, the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... Crichton, and he is not that intelligent. He is known as Derp Cat. As you can see, he is very derpy. Derp Cat is not smart. He is not smart at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... ) is something that I don't think you can find in many commercial ... mean, you can wrap anything you want in rice paper as long as it fits

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... turned out to be pretty algorithmic. Apply the concept you learned in class ... theorems and have to tinker until you can assemble them into solutions to the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  addition to more flexibility in terms of subject areas I can pursue later on ... interested in my physics classes, this can be enough. I'll then be free to take ... was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... . Chad is majoring in Course 22 (Nuclear Engineering). Devin ’13 is ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I ... do you do with these three items? You make this video. And then you tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to start a long day of pen training. You can see Chris there in the ... scheduled for July 24th at 10 in the morning. You're all applying to MIT, you can do math, and you probably realize that that was on Friday. It's now

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  readings and assignments. In this course you will do a great deal of reading, writing, and class discussion, perhaps more than you have done in most of ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months?  Small wins build on each other ... goal of colonizing Mars.  You can't get to Mars without making a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating ... , somewhere, and they know what's going on. They can wrap their brain around

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  -. Since MIT doesn't count plusses or minuses in calculating your GPA ... DID YOU KNOW? Chess prodigy Bobby Fischer has been wanted by the US ... by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  'clock, you in?" "Hm, that's really tempting," I mused, "Very very tempting ... fashionable leather jacket and blue jeans (an outfit you'll find me in on a near ... you just can't figure out why nobody else is wearing pants either. If

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008