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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  first day of the term where all the first year students to the university ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  upstate New York that happened to be in the dead center of the totality path ... New York part.  There should’ve been two more cars of undergrad t𝜩ps ... did we. Rural upstate New York wasn’t too bad in terms of traffic, but

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  all sorts of profound ways. When I was a new frosh, I was temped on 1st ... mention get to know the halls of our new dorm, so we decided to visit each ... " advice about life at MIT, only one tidbit of which I remember clearly. "If

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... job at a prestigious consulting firm, a place where many of her peers at ... transcript.  I cross-registered for some classes at a different university and

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

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  ) immediately below.   Last September, at the height of election fervor, I ... make voter registration a more seamless part of life at MIT.   ... tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My ... been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... only available to people in the MIT community, and at the end of the day

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  horizontal piece of PVC. At the end of Rush the fraternities make bids and ... who got bids at least. There are exceptions, of course, but people who ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  're still rebuilding to this day, but each cycle of new members and emerging ... sake of getting this deal. At some point, they started requiring a unique ... , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new ... ? Every new year, Neil Gaiman writes a lovely little blog post with a wish (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded ... their equipment is located at the top of the Green Building, so he has ... of power tools and construction. I’m not handy in the slightest, but at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick field guide: - The Students at The Land of MIT have this crazy energy. It ... whispering, "We're going to be at the bottom of our math class!" (They're both

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would ... their daily lives (e.g. does a computer scientist glare at lines of code

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  that you take advantage of what we have to offer. And if you end up at a ... class I've taken at MIT) about the history and culture of francophone ... feature of the new LCE website that was just released (which is why mine

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  unacceptable. I'm planning to go to New York sometime this year so!!! hopefully I ... Happy New Year! I usually make resolutions every year, but I forgot ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see ... You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... find that near the Boston University bridge, there are a couple of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per ... of a new Macbook Air per semester. What about time?  It takes me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006