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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... vacation to New Hampshire with the freshmen of Conner 3. We journey deep into

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your own "thing" at MIT! Check out Campus & Student Activities to see what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test anxiety or anything like that. But tests at MIT...well, they're hard. So ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  ,' aka MIT alumni attending their 50th reunion, are guests of honor at ...   livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... mine and we walked back to New House intertwined. One of them is much ... anything at all. All of these are well-crafted excuses that I’ve made though

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  all of these schools look at admissions somewhat differently. Above all ... .g. already enrolled at another university (transfer student) or already ... . Both drew a bit of surprise, but at both schools, the admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  Camp Kesem at MIT. "Part of Your World" is the best Disney song, hands ... the worst of TFP, and advocate for better services at MIT Medical. 2020 ... are NASA faded stickers I got at career fair a couple of years ago. And

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  open to students at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... that work great rather than offering a whole array of less robust

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made ... Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  take a quick look at that?" Just know that you can't get rid of me that ... that offers up so much wisdom and perspective to all of us. I can't wait to hang out (and live..?) with you in New York. Have the most fantastic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  the legendary Debbie Douglas, director of collections at the MIT Museum ... curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... to stop growing until we deprived them of oxygen, at which point they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  opened my eyes to this exciting new form of history, which I've never ... was looking up history offerings at Harvard for the fall semester. After ... that leap of faith really paid off. =p Oh, and even "Art" classes at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  year. This is usually done in the form of setting New Year's resolutions ... of reasons. I wanted to get better at guitar and paint more, in ... for just the amount of opportunity given to me at MIT. So many of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were ... bright and early hour of 1 PM, so representation at the event was at a ... cool. features the address of the apartment the floor hung out at for two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  , a professor I've heard a lot of great things about at MIT! I almost ... out of bed at 9:30 to get washed up. Morning stretching; Recently I ... 'll admit I wasn't a fan of this lecture at all. The professor opened us

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  ordinary supermarkets. I eat most of my meals at my ILG (pika) which also ... charge for each meal is deducted from the card at the time of purchase. The ... " type experience, but at the expense of an extremely solid grounding in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New ... purchased tickets for us in advance and offered them at half the cost. Many ... -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  cancelled the New Haven meeting this year, and thus all of those folks would ... in New York. ... first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More ... it when we went to Niagara Falls. Are you going to take me to New York ... ." But what can you do? For those interested, Sam's Mom took me to New York

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005