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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  came up in the lightning round. Do you do quiz bowl? You should know ... had ever played tuba. I figured out that you can just not press down any ... DID YOU KNOW? Beethoven wrote only one opera and it was called

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  failing to know how the people around you are really doing. In the past few ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of these people we ask one quick question as we hustle on in our lives. In

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... 'm in a taxicab that can only drive on the road-- you add the number of ... [annotation note="for our purposes, you can just picture this as a flat plane

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  've missed you! After CPW, I was sick for nearly two weeks, and I got better just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel in Florida. Last night began the first of four presentations with my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  any rewards in sight. If you have those two things and can articulate ... ’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers ... guides you toward what you truly want to be. In Steve Jobs’ biography

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  college decision is up for a vote (aren't you glad all college decisions aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream flavors. If you walk in the opposite direction up Mass Ave or take Saferide, you can walk down Newbury Street and pass JP Licks, Emack and Bolio

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  didn’t work, but rather if you understand why it didn’t work. It's not ... memorization, but rather if you truly understand the metrial. MIT is dedicated to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit like that? Are you getting bullied? I can kill them. Who's hurting you ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to study with. I've had some interest in genetics since I was a kid. The one

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  can't smoke anywhere in the US and you can smoke everywhere in Europe ... basically just said, "Smoking kills." Speaking of things that can kill you in ... DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  components: 1. In lecture, we will discuss (and you will read research papers ... will aid you in designing, conducting, analyzing and presenting a field ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  experiences in such a tangible way really sucks. so...before you put stickers ... bitch, so get more copies if you can! this message was sponsored by Wow I ... note="tech & repair shop located right next to Trader Joe's in West

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well ... Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). Basically, you can pick three or ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  can go wrong in space though the second season was kind of meh. Trailer ... opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... for scientific research, and you have to draw the line somewhere. All in ... you can use your imagination to picture what it was like. Or better yet

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... Reckoning. It wasn’t really like that. We spent FOUR HOURS in our committee ... answering a surprise Final Fantasy question in quiz bowl finals, while wearing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  (after writing) to step away from your essays. You can’t do this if you ... subconsciously process whatever you’re writing about. This can help you be more ... that excite you and how transferring to MIT can continue the journey you

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   If you're interested in ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess ... you only ever changed in the ways you expect to change...well, that ... , but it does have one thing going for it. You walk down the street in NYC

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008