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• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working. MIT has some breathtaking architecture. After four full years of being

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  a long time for me to realize that jobs are jobs at the end of the day ... well as did a retreat with all of our friends to a cabin in New Hampshire ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Science program at the University of Okoboji because as long as I can ... Gotera of the University of Northern Iowa, which was my guide to writing my ... new one, because I figure this one has the SEO. I still think most of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  at the beginning and the end of the course so students can assess their ... perhaps the most famous class at MIT, and Prof. Slocum is one of the best ... economies. Matt notes: 14.02 was one of my favorite classes at MIT. Prof

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  orientation/recruitment events. It's been a lot of fun, but also quite ... of a virtual [annotation note="residential exploration, usually what ... bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  I'm a member of the class of 2010. (Yeah. I'm new here. Let's hear it ... aforementioned locations. Jamaica. Florida - and the very tip of it at that. I ... running around in the courtyard screaming at the first sign of flakes. Yes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  of my favorite people at MIT Community Wellness, Kate McCarthy. We ... supposed to go home that day to New York, but changed my train ticket to ... We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  cappella group, mind you) at our last concert. It's tough, making new friends ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  trash pits and open sewers. Privileged members of society socialize at an ... first of the five houses in which we collected measurements. At any moment ... think – the flight from Mumbai to New York is 16 hours). I doubt

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... part of the city that I had never been to before, and found new haunts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  just as many new buildings, made of the same red brick. Mountains ... football game once, on television, at a party. There were lots of adults in ... at-risk youth. He was later found guilty on 45 of 48 charges. The media

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  my last attempt at a New Year's Resolution. in my junior year of high ... prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... hopefully my 2019 blog post is true. At the moment, I might only know some of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  almost from scratch. After collapsing, exhausted, at the end of the long ... three new web frameworks at us every lab and we have to learn them and ... , man. You turned out alright. At the culmination of this penultimate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... coworkers and suddenly had a vision of him at age thirty, still at Dropbox ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• 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 / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the ... a lot of fun with the people at my table (yeah table 12!), it was ... 've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my ... : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... engineering research at a nearby university (albeit virtually, because of COVID

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  building was realized after spending a lot of his undergrad years at MIT ... team of other noteworthy individuals) have come together to build a new ... ’m currently a junior at MIT majoring in course VI-III. Melis has graciously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  of social distinction. Students at prestigious universities undergo ... "] some of my living community at the screening (featuring a slightly ... , so a lot of information was new to me. I wasn't expecting to know so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022