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• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  my friends and their family. every saturday or sunday my freshman fall ... do. at least that’s what everyone told me, and so that’s what i ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where ... sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and ... an armless Orion, and the butt and tail of Ursa Major. One star of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to ... about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... future application and someone else's on balancing scales. The cynical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  minutes later, my friend Holly responded and said that, duh, of course she ... Counselor for Communications, and she basically makes all of our print ... anything new and creative just because it's new or creative. Last week Holly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... over, and many emotions are running through many people on campus. Many ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  institutions of government and the representation of competing interests. Topics ... other countries. Reviews economic, cultural, and institutional ... this big list of about 10 different class combinations and had narrowed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  , papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my ... Intercollegiate Service Organization (BISCO) and we have monthly activities at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could ... version of chemistry A humanities, arts and social science (HASS) elective ... best suit their needs. And even within the courses that are required

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  at the Institute—and he's been practicing his craft in Lobby 10 ever ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  for granted the wonderfully fast, universally-available and fast ... ) program, I was pretty excited about the grass. The CME program lets MIT and Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing ... , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... less tangible subjects, namely the homogeneity and isotropy of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  submitted your application and now comes the hardest part, forgetting about it ... ): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... with visuals and links. * The month started and ended with visits from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  follow along on my six weeks of adventures in Michigan, Texas, Seattle, and ... where I grew up! I decided to start the trip early and hang out with the ... state of Michigan, Michigan has two peninsulas - the "upper peninsula

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and ... . Svenson and P. Barnes (Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research ... » (2006) Presented by B. Audoly and S. Neukirch (Université Pierre et Marie

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  victims of natural disasters. I myself am from Naples Florida and just got power back from Wilma." And Justin wrote, "I am from New Orleans and my ... recommendations got through before sending them again and will MIT realize that if I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  Institute and prospective MIT students. It transcends standard viewbooks and ... MIT," the portal serves as a dynamic bridge between the Institute and ... -Office-type articles and whatnot. As some of you will remember, the blogs portlet was

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I ... and over and over again: See, the weird thing about the Patriots this year (and the last few years) is that the team has been consistently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... reserves are drying out, glaciers are melting, and the world’s supply

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  I walked into 21M.302: Harmony and Counterpoint II today to find this ... hours: However, when Dr. Hughes started lecturing I was polite and put ... bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005