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• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  year of undergrad, I chose to live in a double, because I really liked ... experience was defined by proving myself to nobody in particular—proving I ... ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  get to experience. The class is in TEAL format that focuses a lot on ... greetings to people in my class in probably twenty-five languages. I think the ... foreign language to me as of now, so I am really working extra in this class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  ), please contact Michael Yang in the Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch with your financial aid officer ... 've already said NO to MIT: Thank you for having applied; it was great getting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not ... Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... Why oh why would I ever go to Agawam? (These could potentially

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... college applications or homework or grades, and I just get to exist. Like last night: my mom was out of town and I needed to get to my math

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering ... an international intern before. A few nerves started to kick in, but I ... started to get that overwhelmed feeling again, wondering if I really was

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like ... this one, get back to dancing a lot, and more. I've already started on ... already know most of the choreo. In addition to Chamak, I'm also co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... to see who will donate the most money. I dropped by their table in ... . The volunteers who recorded my donation to the PSC in lobby 10 said that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... 's mostly random, though I'll have more to say about sorting in future posts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... classes in subjects that aren’t math, but involve math to a reasonably high

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021