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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals, and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I was scrambling slightly to finish. On the way, however, I passed people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  effort. To help out, she designed a kite that measured the number of hours ... contribute well over 450 hours to community service. In the Future The ... 'll find students making time to rise up to that challenge. That's what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  The MIT.01 course, Intro to the Institute, has been very exciting to teach, and I expect that it will be added to the extensive list of courses already existing on OpenCourseWare. To gauge the extent of how well you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  to be a viable and important option. But the history of these recent ... form of assessment, the most important advice is to try some of these ... I'm briefly emerging from hard work in the application mines to share

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for MISTI Israel, but since i had no idea if i had been accepted to the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  friends and I rented a car and drove the ~2 hours to Cape Cod. It was cold ... car and drove to Montréal. It's a 5-hour drive if you take a straight ... to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... narrow victory for Lowell. (Photo credit to Eric Schmiedl '09) Yes, that ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  schools can help them change the world. I could have talked for hours on just this question, but I gave a short answer and deferred to my colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a different approach to the GIRs. Typically, freshman classes have huge lectures with everyone in the class, and then every other day, have an hour

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  decided to raise Liv as if Todd Rundgren were her father. Since her mother ... went to Berlin for the World Cup finals! Things were appreciably crazy ... with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From: Barry To: Bryan "that's great that students are interested in it! we are actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two-hour food coma immediately after dinner, I think it's pretty safe to say that I emerged victorious. I wanted to turn the turkey carcass into usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  . The office hours were severely [annotation note="shoutout to the TA ... , sometimes those hours led to nowhere. Sometimes my system wouldn't work no ... I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  engineering project. Important words to live by, and with that I'll wish ... group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  importantly, give him something I'd wanted to give him since summer began. Our ... summer before I came to MIT, my last summer home, and the one thing I remember most is how my friends and I used to play volleyball every week. A

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston

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

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the operating systems lab with the precious few late hours left that i'd had -- i'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019