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• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... classmates for their takeaways, too. Here’s a review by Anhad S. ‘25: This was ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  you to seek out the answers for yourself, sending you off on a journey ... like Wikipedia, even for all of its supposed flaws - it's a launching ... 's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  . The post-8.286 reaction: For every particle I see, a precursor existed ... This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... *-duh-nar-done”) kicked off our first lecture with a demonstration. He placed a glass next

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... being able to write down "[email protected]." It's a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  ’t even looking for. Besides the two soda can holders, I was given a ... Dorms. Multistep retrosynthesis. A cappella music. Hacks. Everything ... education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  I'm a little nervous right now, because I have my first major exam ... chipped in $35 and rented cars and a cabin (apparently, MIT students can ... almost fell off a giant mountain. Zozer '07 smashed a fly with a spatula

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  recently won a $2,500 scholarship from the Morikami Museum in Delray Beach. Despite a demanding academic schedule, he still finds time for a social life ... ." For example, computers can analyze thousands of samples at a time, he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up ... effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  conversation. "Hey! Sorry, lost you for a bit." "That's good, have you met ... myself to do it, thinking naively that I could be her for a night, but all ... . "Thanks for the invite, have fun." And I found refuge in a quiet dorm with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  form for the AU would be a one-way CfD (contract for differences) arrangement -- in which an energy producer will receive a fixed price for ... decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A week before I got into MIT early action, I was rejected as a Quest

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard ... ="alignnone" width="652"] A free organ!![/caption] Step 2: Alert the Others Make sure

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big ... feeling of having a longgggg day of class, and preparing for a longgggg ... practice for a few hours to play the sport I love. There’s nothing better

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  ’s luxurious Institute mattress for the pure joy that is throwing together a ... of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and ... Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really far away from home for a bit. One afternoon that summer, while about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... find new cool places on campus, even after hanging around here for a very ... me...I had never been on a campus tour...before yesterday, that is. It

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a ... left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  call before he passed. I'm sure my host family didn't inform me for a ... semester and asked for a few-day extension, I had simply been directed to their late policy. with S^3's help, I got a few extra days for a 'family

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... fingers hurt if I took them out of my hand covers for more than a few ... Big Rocks gave us a perfect day for my third trip there. By the time we

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024