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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  psychology grew out of a call for universal education, and that it reciprocally ... After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  : Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... some sort of [annotation note="i watched lady bird (2017) a few days

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  our Brown University friends, who were touring startups as part of their ... visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  Cambridge University as a whole, but instead apply to a specific college, of ... the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... experiments and write the final draft of the paper. I've been moving numbers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  I have enough of a questions backlog now that I think it's worth ... little groups of freshmen led by an upperclassman (all incoming frosh are ... midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Utah are MIT ECs (!). I ... Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... online from my hotel in Salt Lake City, hosted by the folks at The Art of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... compete against 130 other vehicles from universities across the country? If ... classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  . Between then and now, a fusillade of transformations has taken place. Rather than present a disjointed patchwork of events from here and there, I ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  being as frequent as I normally am. I think last year, I set a goal of ... overall was harder. There’s also a couple things I’ve been doing outside of ... , becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  Growing up, I admit that I watched a decent amount of television. I ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... importance of taking time periodically to think about my vision of the ideal

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  driveway as I had done thousands of times before (driving was weird in and of itself), it felt foreign, nothing like walking through the familiarity of the infinite. Maybe it seems silly, but even grabbing something out of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017