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Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students
School of Management. Frank Lee, co-founder at Bevi. MBA at MIT Sloan -
Blog / Academics & Research
What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them
So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A – “Exceptionally good performance…” B –… -
Blog / MIT Life
Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!
my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
It’s Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies, and oddly-formatted emails. I’ve been reading a lot of… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet
These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of last semester’s trials… -
Blog / Academics & Research
The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.
Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport.… -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!
Imagine: you arrive on campus. It’s awesome. Breathtaking. Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today
dark. With that in mind, along with the fact that many other schools had -
Blog / Admissions
Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~
Hello Interwebz! Our campus is swarming with high school students and free food. It's all very exciting. Everyone is very excited! Ahhh! I'm excited too! In fact, this is also my first CPW ever. I did not -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done
the old-school electrical folks. Lastly, the Manufacturing lead comes -
Blog / Events
Unknowns in illustrated list form
the world in other ways. Kristine is in med school now, so if humankind -
Blog / Academics & Research
Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester
craziness season begins for you poor juniors in high school (subject tests and -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss
, some of my old journals (if I could tell my high-school self one thing -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman
rural area of Somalia, the first in his family to attend school, just as -
Blog / Personal Travel
A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures
once in Albuquerque the summer after I graduated from high school (I lost -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…
This school year was pretty terrible. I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better. I took classes that -
Blog / IAP
Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.
high-school level. Once you’ve taken your GIRs, you’ll know all the -
Blog / Admissions
Spot the Blogger where you'll find bloggers during CPW, and some bonus tips!
up and try everything. :) You've earned it! 4) CPW is still school for -
Blog / How to Human
“What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry
I like to pack light. Maybe it's some combination of old hiking habits, suppressed middle school memories of having my roller backpack kicked around, or watching Up in the Air too many times. Anyways, every