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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... for Mic Check...   ...and moved on! That might not seem

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  a pretend chemistry major. I LOVE 5.12, and I really like learning ... , B, C, Cause for Concern, and In Trouble, and yours truly made the ... enough to sway me 5. AND we get them for free when we declare. Course 7

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  packed and ready for Charleston. The flight was about 2 hours, and from the airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... super fun. For non-sailors: Team racing is 3v3 and the aim is for your

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  still have to fit time for other activities, going to sleep, and studying in between. You learn a lot of these things through trial and error ... 's Thanksgiving season, and I definitely have a lot of things to be thankful for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  two-week period is a bad idea for both mind and body. :-) Have you seen ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match ... you truly care about, and express your passion for them appropriately

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 ... cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret for not having purchased better life insurance into the humid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  , course 14; I was born and raised in New Jersey (no jokes, please), but I moved to Northern California in 2000, just in time for warm weather and a ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  dedicating $150 billion over 10 years for a new clean energy R&D and ... for developing countries. ...and more! In the lab: Center for ... of Chemistry with a passion for understanding fuel cells and other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up and down the California coast visiting friends and family. I worked last

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about ... Democrat has the rest of the story: For 18 years, Maria and John Hildebrand ... is an amazing, world-changing place. But it's not for everyone

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  his nametag and introduced myself. He told me about his plans for CS ... my arms. Woah. There are six of us in this class, and it is not for ... , and are used to taking physics class in which the purpose is for us to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out ... didn't know where I was and only had 12 minutes to get to a bus I didn ... . Kind of like the time I was sick and had to go to 5.12 lecture because it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... , Danny '12, and I all met at the Media Lab and commandeered a board room

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  tests, a quiz, two psets, and a paper are all between Wednesday and Friday ... . Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright and novelist whose play Topdog/Underdog won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making her the first black woman

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  concerts in the past week, for free. Concert #1: Verdi's Stabat Mater and Te ... : MITSO and Concert Choir concerts are free for "members of the MIT ... drunken sailor, and Lizi '12 was a heartless Spirit. An interlude about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  Park. And on the Discord server us interns were in, I looked for others ... websites for Airbnb and Kopa. Well, it's not like we had any better leads ... learned that there was a difference between the BART and the Muni, and how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... 'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... 's enough time for me to assure each and every one of you, right now, of this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  - and they do listen. For instance, some students mentioned there weren't enough concept questions asked, which are used both for attendance and to ... new for me, my two lecturers - Professors Jacks and Sive - are

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  egalitarian in that way. We really want to do our best for the students and ... lot!) and/or those that are members of the National Consortium for ... Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008