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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my head. The warmth, which had faded, returned, and lingered over the past month, is decidedly dead. The sky is white and my bed is very warm. So I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  which have not seen that in a year and a half. The torch of institutional ... buildings and more trees, rebranded restaurants and abandoned stores. The ... school? With that sari-sari store selling overpriced school supplies and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

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

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston ... Chandler '13 and Taylor '13 Jonte '13 Sean '13 Terence '13 Christy '13 ... weights, play football and help his dad with construction. But he's brainy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  . As has been explained a million times and will be a million more, MIT ... getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your ... abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , Economics, and Data Science) But the most important thing that I take with me ... team of capable people who will support, surprise and inspire each other ... , community, city, or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... , earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... eleven classes in one year, finished my MCATs, and embarked on the ... Madrid, Tokyo, and San Francisco. Through the madness of MIT, savoring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  .) For those both within and outside of the Institute who have not yet ... exhibits I have seen anywhere and is easily my favorite LVAC exhibit that I've attended. (And I'm not just saying that because I am writing a blog for MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common ... social life and (dare I say it on the MITblogs) party scene. If you're done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  bit and plug it here. The other event is running on Friday and Saturday ... combination of fun and information out of your CPW: Make friends. You'll stay ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  from you and the due date was last Friday. You can have an extension ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... 12 pages written, and sketchy headers for the next 7 or so sections

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and production staff - Melis, Dawn '08, Hannah '09, Ivana '11, and me - have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  some core classes out of the way, including single and multivariable calculus, physics (mechanics and E&M), chemistry, and biology. No ifs, ands, or buts, you will take these classes (or pass out of them). There

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  interact with media is really important in the current state of affairs, and ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled ... kinds of weeks: hard weeks and slightly less hard weeks. during hard weeks

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... extraneous backstory and distracting pop culture references, I was trying

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  questions of life and the universe). One of the great things about this ... I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... ’m not doing it right, and then push it to the backburner. But now this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024