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• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world's impoverished - whether by war or famine or disease or any of the other myriad ... something new about someone I already know. At MIT, most of the activities

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Legacy of England (21L.420), then they are available! Another traditional duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and ... Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  learned where both of my parents went to college, what their degrees were ... friend at the quad-turned-makeshift-memorial. He was one of Johnny's best ... the greatest kids showing up at the freshman orientation of his new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  ! Look at how charming! On one of my last days, I went to explore the ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time ... about our classes!)"]spending-most-of-the-hours-of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... ?  HASS classes at MIT are challenging and amazing. We have some of the best ... support services does MIT provide?  MIT offers a lot of resources. The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of ... -- the latest technologies, a credit card swipe at the drop of a hat, new

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  Counselor), at our high school's annual college forum, where a bunch of ... have friends! Sometime at the beginning of 9th grade, we made our first ... limited by the lack of arts it offered. We asked our guidance counselor if

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  things with them that you can both enjoy.  Some of my best friends at MIT ... community here at MIT that has awesome events and is a ton of fun to hang out ... who will be at CPW, and therefore you will need a different amount of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  think I knew the majority of the majors at heart and even if I didn't, you ... first years A lot of people ask me "What's dorm hall food like at MIT?" to ... all my heart and I missed her so much when I was at home. One of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed ... look at a film and a video game adaptation of Heart of Darkness and how different mediums offer different experiences A study in the rise of zombie

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  part of elsewhere." There are many people who are welcoming at MIT, but ... 's Rainbow Lounge is great for that. There are a lot of events at the Rainbow ... (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  excited to run into. Many of the walls at the Broad are clear glass, and I ... then graded by the TAs. I hung out with some of the bloggers at Chris P ... tired of reading and go to yoga at Prana Power Yoga, which is a six

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  , you also get Spotify Premium at the discounted rate of $4.99. Available ... the ones at the beginning of YouTube videos but it does block all the ... . After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• 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,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... semester it's being offered. I think the website is enrollee-only, so here ... new class on the topic of field (that is, "in situ") and laboratory

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

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  're moving through it at a blistering pace, but at least part of me enjoys the ... stagnant though (and a couple of my friends were also taking Spanish at that ... ="the humanities? at my institute of technology? it's more likely than you think

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions ... click on "How to accept or decline our offer of admission", and complete ... , and do all kinds of outreach--traveling the country, visiting high

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket ... legs The former meant bounding out of bed at the unacceptable hour of 6 ... of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  exactly what sort of healthcare they'll be getting at MIT. I've also added a compilation of links to some of MIT's many student health resources at the end ... at MIT – since arriving here, most of it the hard way. I know that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days were as a member of my living community, the Burton Third Bombers. I had somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice with my team, [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020