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  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and ... out into the light of day to finally turn in that one impossible PSet ... smell of a wintery freshness. The Frosh and her Best Friend will smile in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  can, in the form of a final design project. 6.UAT - Oral Communication ... given topic covered in that class now, I'll still have to put in a lot of ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real ... Friday when I was still in New Jersey. A couple of hours after that I got

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that would be less terrifying coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up ... that last minute work on your halloween costume, or...... I can tell you

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... of things off my proverbial plate."]Awhile ago,[/annotation] I got an ... of both of them too. I've linked the PDFs of the translations here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  application I had a pretty solid game plan: Stress band, life in the country ... available (I actually think I got Part I in about four hours after it was posted online) so that I'd have plenty of time to just roll the essay

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  appeared in The New Yorker in 1978. You can read the 650-word story (which I ... both exciting and sad -- I am head-over-heels in love with all 3 of the ... indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  nervous since I'm not super confident in my writing, but all of the topics ... relatively okay looking individual, but I lacked a lot of self confidence in my ... in the class. And honestly I think that's one of the best parts of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house ... hundred hundred hundred hundred hundred of these doors in the house, and you ... of two parts: a big ball in the middle and many much smaller balls

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... a lot of our prospective students will be as excited as I am that this is a thing, I asked Christina to write up a brief history of how this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed ... I’m huddled in an office chair in a tiny box-studio in Lexington, MA ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... coffee yet." Joe and I stood in the middle of the store for about twenty ... in the biophysics of superheroics, but then I realized that all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A spark of hope!! Then, I’d check the weather again an hour later, and it ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  type of work I want to do in the future (robotics!). ***** While I am ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... whole selection of other materials in each of the languages offerred, can ... pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  Saturday) in teams of four. It's a good deal: five evenings a week, I have a ... charge of making sure one thing is working at all times and I'm in charge ... instantiation of the project is I can get these commercially important compounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... course 9 classes have covered a wider variety of subfields. I decided that I'd summarize them a bit so that prefrosh and incoming frosh can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  to help students in need of support, but I think it's important to ... (FUP).  I held in my tears and sadness the entire day, but by the end of ... electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig ... /watching.     Today I, and many of our admissions officers, are taking ... of the class and related research. I've embedded the webcast below. You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can ... , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... *stunning* rings, we had dinner in an adjacent room. There were a bunch of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006