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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  cruising through school. Make sure you collect lots of little memories :) ... Tomorrow marks the return of classes, p-sets, papers, reading assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  uncomfortable middle school years, who of my age -- trying desperately to be ... Michael Jackson of my middle school years was what I expected to hear ... For MIT students, we're most often having fun when we're way too busy

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Ray meal that consisted of a chicken hamburger topped with chorizo and ... when she ran out of unsweetened bakers' chocolate, so she chopped up some ... lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... I had to stop reading. I feel like that could be some sort of metaphor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Art"), and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA). Cross registration is ... class at Harvard, in the Graduate School of Education (all Harvard graduate schools except for the Business School are open to cross

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  list of various non-school things I do at/not at MIT. Though I have read ... much to the majority of schools I applied to who still invited me to ... schools that required the GRE general test. Luckily for me, a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of ... MIT was the first school that popped up. And they'd never heard of it ... talk with every one of you. Also, the hamburgers.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  school i've been back on campus for about two weeks now, but it feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming ... ), and statistical learning theory (9.520). outside of coursework, i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  example of longform journalism) -- Chris Robichaud, Harvard Kennedy School ... the Harvard Kennedy School) -- Myisha Cherry, Harvard University Dept of ... Cluster of Excellence CliSAP, Universität Hamburg) WGS.151 GENDER, HEALTH

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended with a miniature avalanche of lentils, peppers, onions, brown rice, fat pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  : 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix 3 boxes of cake batter 3 tubs of icing 4 decorating gels 4 packages of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  identify their school and degree (red means PhD, or doctorate of philosophy ... .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  "mentorship" phase of the "high school research mentorship program," so things ... surprises the people I meet, because I am constantly busy, and people expect ... the oft-quoted line of Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC ... between unique and magical. The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans has taken

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of Engineering in Biological Engineering. A Masters of Engineering is a 5th year

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  conscious years of existence in schooling of some sort, working a job has let ... Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  engineering programs, yes, but few other schools have 50% of the undergraduate ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005