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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  of high school complaining about bio objectives (weekly bio homework ... -knit high school. But then of course, once you became a sophomore it was all ... got straight A's in high school and had a blast doing all of my random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the entire Boston area, I sort of feel guilty having fun if I've got a whole

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  Have you all had your high school proms yet? If your school doesn ... dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  put my head down and sort of dig into the work, and although there have ... summer. One thing I've noticed this summer is the presence of what I will call Big Feelings™, in the sense that I feel like many of the experiences

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a website that I've been working on a lot since school got cancelled just

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  school = 0. This meant that I was able to retain all of my points during ... of 5 games played by the MIT community. Playing the games was straightforward, but winning them was not. The top-ranked players of each game were

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  had my seventh day of school. In many ways, med school is like going back to high school - the days are much longer with an intense amount of ... program at the same campus (SSP Ojai 2006) my junior year of HIGH SCHOOL

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... possibilities digital events offer compared to in-person ones. First years Favour ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  outside of Lusaka. A guesthouse, where foreigners often stay. A school ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... (Peace Corps, CARE), 2) visited orphanages, schools, compounds, and 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... % MIT 32% RPI 19% Cornell My sources tell me that at least two of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and ... the summer, and I was going to limit the number of external cycles I ... “compromise” with myself was that I wouldn’t sit as the chair of the REX

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  manuscripts from the School of Kerala, which showed their work in calculus and ... eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe And there behold the Loom ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  tossing around the idea of leaving high school a year early until I had ... rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... of my very successful female engineer friends. She is a highly respected public speaker, a big First Robotics proponent, and a champion of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... , after the winter/Christmas break). Regardless of schedules, MIT dorms are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  dermatologist and dentist notes to skip whole days of school, even though the ... pulled into the school parking lot, making sounds straight out of horror ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... time here thus far. So far on the blogs, I have written about two of them ... to write about a few more of these projects over the summer, but I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023