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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  convinced that girls and kickball are a no-no. It's just like middle school ... busy street, cuts through much of Northwestern's campus. Both of these

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  University professors are often portrayed as self-absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any ... other. He says that MIT was the only school he applied to, and for him it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  unhappy and busy, which struck me as a) infuriating, and b) as a ridiculous ... 't be picking your school based on something as silly as architecture

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done ... grades were my business, I still felt like someway somehow that I had to

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  It's been so long since I've last posted! Sorry! Things have been verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual ... , PhD, medical school, or just to hang out in the area (either working at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  school's production, remember. I will get to posting integral answers soon ... seen all the way through. No lie. But onward to business. Today was the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  Hunt and Charm School. There is a 12-credit limit during IAP (which ... and activities to keep you busy for life. There. I am now officially

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  car for hours at a time on busy city streets, where dings and scratches ... !) Woke up early this morning and had three great school visits in Philly

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  The NACAC conference happens each fall. About 4200 admissions people (adcoms from colleges and universities, GC's from high schools, independent ... business. Here's a plug for Lloyd Thacker's Educational Conservancy. He

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  that aims to facilitate social interaction while we're away from campus"]Busy ... initiative and offered a server to host everything, as well as some individuals ... offers are wonderful, but it's important to acknowledge that these can

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  invest in some business-casual clothing. And so, before the summer had even ... /EECS realm3 that also offer such programs or hire freshmen. 5) Ask your ... for something related to your education, MIT offers a lot of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  'm busy wondering how many people can say that they've talked to a ... letter. Still in shock, I offer my contact information as usual. Dan says ... to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... necessarily offering clarification or description of any kind. Like a medieval ... endurance running, they offer ways to negotiate progress without being solely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  , brush my teeth, and run downstairs. It’s just like a normal school day. I ... hotel. A skating mom offers to drive me back to my hotel, and then I ... , he’s staying near my hotel, and offers to drive me back after his

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  enrolled in it. (I'd like to casually mention that Old English was offered at ... just finished applying and being accepted to grad school, and am now ... advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... school, it wasn’t too difficult to find things to hang. However, even ... , offered through the List Visual Arts Center. http

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  requested a conflict exam in a class where the professor didn't offer conflict ... the same time from three classes that didn't offer conflict exams ... rarely even had four in high school). But it's all good - the race had been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  assignments" that you get in high school. Big differences between psets and high school assignments: * There is generally very little busywork ... school assignments (you might just get 5 problems, with a) b) c) d) e) f

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... school, I spent three summers at a program called CTY. The few weeks I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large ... otherwise do not have a home that is safe to go to). And MIT has offered ... things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020