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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  midterms, psets, and essays clustered in the same few days, anyway? And you ... 't make you learn material any better.  Turning in a pset 24 hours late ... tolerance for discomfort. It sucks in the moment, but lets you do cool things

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  while you self-quarantine, we strongly recommend listening to In the ... happening (at least not in their originally intended form), and the work that students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  you to see how strong the connection is in Nigeria!” he told me, and ... decreases--how can you make sure that the report reaching the prime minister ... station in the project region will be set up where observers can exchange

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be ... another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking ... the Mid-Year Grade Report. You should send this in as soon as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Class of 2014 track jacket When your MIT friends say you're a dork, you know you have a problem

  

  It finally arrived. All you need to know is that something in here matches something in here.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  bubbling in each character. My friend responded, you claim you don't know but then you can say all this. But to be honest, I've finished that book now ... by Elena Ferrante, a book that feels inscrutable. It is about a girl in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting ... can also be full of unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in ... not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  , you can still attend the house meeting every other Sunday, where we ... finished in time. I should not be writing this. You’re welcome. ... There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... MIT. Dreamers can continue their studies in the U.S. thanks to DACA ... ,” responded another Dreamer. “You learn about the power of people in college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  are so many people I want to keep in touch with, and I know I can see ... here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... middle of term can be just like any other week, or they can be ridiculous ... dualism in Western thought (7 pages), 21A.100 paper on cultural relativism

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  you can begin with just mud, and in the end there is porcelain. In the ... things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... prodigies when you don’t know how much they, too, have failed in the past, or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  for us. Computers are simple; they can only find the genes in a string ... , they can affect the expression of that gene. In this case, no protein is ... identity of the base pairs in it. Computers are our friends, but we can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  say I can’t help but be myself. “You wear your heart on your sleeve ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall ... two high school boyfriends are both currently in PhD programs (pure math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  We’ve just opened registration (and our puzzle!). You can find both at ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... HackMIT, in our 2017 theme: Hack to the Future. On social media, the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  , sometimes for worse, but so often for the better. see you in a few weeks ... morning: Although we seem to be interconnected in almost every way imaginable - we have the same romanized last names, we're both in the same

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... 't work that way. From the first question, you have to ask two more, and find 3 formulas for them and then you will get an answer, if you are

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008