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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a slightly more spiffy outfit choice: Ring Delivery (also blogged by Rachel

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  went to a Canadian school in Jamaica for a couple of years. Everyone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  stresses of school work and campus life, is always hosting awesome events

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  high school that consisted of pizza, cold turkey sandwiches, and milk

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  recycling bin, chatted with my mentor about graduate schools (AHHH!!!!!) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  snowing, but the fact that I could take it every weekday during the school

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  , embrace it, and then let it go. This is your last semester of high school

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  included the Center for Children's Happiness (an orphanage and school for

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to play in either band or orchestra. We had "tryouts": we took a shot at playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I’m finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I’ve spent the last 48…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  school, my dad never missed a meet and my mom volunteered at every home

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to be mainstream curiosities. Recently, someone from my high school threw

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  middle of high school, however, there was a point at which I kind of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  )Scholarship Row - a college fair with dozens of schools, including MIT, represented

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  school friend, and David, a fellow Dallas admit, at the airport! Minor

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  school now and spend Winter Break watching other people play Guitar Hero? I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  average stuck-in-grad-school grad student, as it so happens. I've come to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009