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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  . In celebration of Blog Action Day, I asked him if he had any ... and spends three weeks in a village in a developing country. I will be ... throughout the developing world. D-Lab is unlike any other I've taken. In most

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  other people say, 'I've felt that way, too.' " In some ways impostor ... Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... . In the morning, I was woken by a harrowing newscaster voice on the ... ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... doubt in the mental sink where I'd been pouring my Googlified impressions ... Late last night, I cut the brakes on the Sleep-8-Hours

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  complete radio kit.) Remember when I said that I would be taking Terrascope ... Sometimes I can't help but wonder what people at MIT, students ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  wasn't new to me, I'd seen it in an episode of CSI: Miami, but there was ... , the flash mob became a relevant subject in my life. I started attending ... group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  So I was looking through my camera tonight, and here's what I found ... ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag ... types of fondue -- this one had cheddar in it, and there was another that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an ... term), I worked in a joint Brain & Cognitive Science

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

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  week, the ACT announced disruptions as well. In my last post, I affirmed ... reaffirmed in the recent Care Counts in Crisis statement that I've signed — we ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  in my closet until I got annoyed at the exposed screws; I’m not sure if ... right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... with what I think is the coolest paint job in the dorm. It belonged to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief ... choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... important thing I can say is, in my 3 years on campus, I have never had to ...   Friday night I went down the river to the annual MIT- Harvard

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

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  my first IAP – which I’ll surely blog about in the coming weeks. • P ... , why, it must be because I have a math class at 12 PM and would not like to rush in between; plus I just found out p-sets for that class are due

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... beyond   While in Almaty I also made some time to visit the local ... accredited postsecondary institutions in America. I spoke to ~30 local Kazakh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I ... year, that I actually formed connections that I'm putting in effort to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  time it looks like this: Luckily I've been in a super supportive ... myself immensely! :) In my free time I also broke out my tablet and ... identities. So all in all, not a bad summer. I'm not sure how this upcoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  invested heavily in research,” he said, “and I hate that our people are still ... the value in this. “I am a firm believer in the quote, ‘as the twig is ... there. “I’ll be Skyping in,” he assured me. Going forward, there’s still a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  For the last few years, I've been living off-campus in a house full ... this was some kind of chemical fire in room 408. But I hadn't heard about ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] a news headline about what happened[/caption] I wasn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  , or FR) NEVER TAKE THIS SEAT. I promise you the person in front of you ... ;     Tune in later this week for a blog explaining why I ... Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  experience what it's like to live in a place where it snows. "I know it's one ... -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006