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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown from just one to now having two full shelves! So, initially, when my semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  done before. Keeping a calender definitely helps. If Google Calenders didn't send me a reminder every half hour before class, I'm pretty sure I would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because ... (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... the phone. A tall, tattooed man walks in wearing a skintight red devil suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  6.270 - Autonomous Robot Design Competition 6.370 - Battlecode, a.k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... from previous years and are built around new themes every year, so that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  open with a hammer. Then this morning, refreshed from the first shower ... admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... papercuts later, I hauled my arrangement off to Kresge, where a ragtag band of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  yourself a cup of coffee, and commented “FIRST!” on my blog already. Great. We're now ready to play a short psychological game. A private ... .Imagine a piece of paper, do cross-multiplication on your imaginary piece of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  (but surely) learning that maybe if I get a bite of cake from my ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about ... are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to ... for the summer. The dorms' summer rates for 2006 range from $1

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  A couple people have asked about suggestions for useful items with ... not everything needs to be sent from home. Some folks think they need to ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  . Check them out! Here are a few highlights: 2.007: Design and ... manufacturability are emphasized. Subject relies on active learning via a major design ... professional responsibilities and ethics. A required on-line evaluation is given

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... Rachael Ray's salsa stoup. It's thicker than a soup, but thinner than a stew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  wrote. Honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed -mm] Without a doubt, the students ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... city (250,000+ college students can have that effect on a place), the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  This post started as a voice memo, taken during a walk home. Its ... /11/thanksgiving-first-draft.mp3"][/audio] I had a very difficult time my freshman ... of a combination of P/NR, taking easier classes, and just an

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  being able to sit in a lecture hall again and walk from class to class ... Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  light up from understanding new concepts. There are a few thoughts that ... What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... what’s next. It’s literally “a” and “new”. A new… what? You may be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT student” (if such a thing even exists!) – for starters, check out the shirt

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  from Google, AQR, and MDT in there too. And a bunch of other big name ... :00 a.m. EST- Sabar Drumming Class Before you graduate, the Institute not ... MIT is an acronym, or as I like to say "L.E.A.M.I.T.I.A.A"(did you catch

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in ... you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022