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• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  there,” “why would you pick a class that you can essentially take at MIT ... previous coursework and internship in pharma where I can clearly follow the ... Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  puzzle hunts (in-person and online) scattered throughout the year, but the ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I ... facing up: For those of you who haven't been to campus before, that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... that anything you can do to make people more scientifically literate - or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  , current applicant or unusually developed rhinoceros—you can probably solve ... things you have uncovered need be cojoined in marriage. At the end of one ... Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  was not an enthused as I had hoped. "Kayode, you can't run to the ... north end, I can make it." "Just come home, we're already proud of you ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  , there's an Adjustment Lottery. In the lottery, you can decide to stay in ... available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... you submit this list to MIT, where a computer puts everyone in a dorm

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  road went until 2024. also, you can click and drag classes in right from ... the year for any semester in your road and a popup appears, where you ... will actually turn out on paper so you can debate with yourself for a bit

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  , “Rona, you can do that, but it might make things harder for you later ... -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough

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

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  testing, techniques, and reactions can make you feel like you’re in some ... just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an environment that would let me follow my own intellectual curiosity in intriguing

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  standup comedian. As you can imagine, our seminar meetings have been ... family now. So, as you can see, RBA seminar advising is awesome. PS Pre ... , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  on par with a Dalai Lama/Noam Chomsky kind of lecture. In case you don ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming/editing/etc. If you're curious, here is the Buzzfeed article I mentioned (I'm still

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  /listener subjects, academic warnings that do not show up in the transcript you send ... pushed for us to be right before finals. You can imagine that this can be a ...   ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  day in 18.02 but the instant you see him cross Mass Ave to go to the ... Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... bedding (should I just sleep in my old room tonight or move all the bedding

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  went to Flirting 101, because I could. I mean, how can you not? All of ... official start of this "freshman musical dorms" as you call it, but it can ... year. So you stay with this person, live in their dorm, check out all the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  on LGBQT life here. The short story: MIT has renewed their You Are Welcome Here campaign. For those of you who don't know what this is, the You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  ! Because in Boston, you can see something at least five percent as cool as ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION: In Germany, the energy content of ... 200 miles by train in a single day. Amazing Race 13, here I come. My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  you're being chased by some large jungle cat and can't get away fast ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of ... "lynn." I didn't even really consider putting "el en ex" as a choice

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pods--I think that they can cut you off from the outside world too much, which is ... brilliant marketing technique when you can remove basic functionality from an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  transitioning from high school to college. So, you know, I want to bask in the ... still can. I think there might be some kind of moral lesson you prefrosh ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011