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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for ... Migration in Europe 21G.418 is an interesting class, in that it's cross ... intensive writing component"]research papers[/annotation] for the class in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  who is your point of contact for anything that you don't understand in ... scheduled supervision #2 for some day in week 5. However you realize, the day ... flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... Market, and an advertisement for Maine's greatest comedian , Bob Marley. We ... secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  , Chicago, Ohio, and even an MIT alum who also worked in the Langer lab! We ... Venter (who I have some serious beef with, which made for an interesting ... pitches!) and in an hour, we deliver it to the class. More class in the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  technology is all the rage. An idea's no good if it's just stuck in your ... ...it was time for PLAYsentations!  In one of MIT's largest lecture halls (10 ... There's a paragraph in Steve Job's biography where famed Apple

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  at work (written back in August, but still perhaps true?), but for now ... the last minute we finished, just in time for our second race. The ... pit. Lucky for us, team Speed Racer also snapped their bike in half

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  . A passing grade in an ASE lets you get credit for that class and ... importance of goals in our young, impressionable minds. Just for this, though ... : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... my time in coffee shops studying for the [annotation note="18 ... change of major form cleared. I built an RC aircraft and made friends in my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  of the 1896 Olympics in a column he wrote for MIT's alumni magazine ... thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  things have also taken an incomprehensible turn for the worse in several ... pictures from Manchester in one big FIRST-happy entry. Yay. Read on for ... answers. For one, it's just an MIT student's nature to complain. No matter

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to ... embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... the trapeze, and in an hour she was better than me. I didn't have the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  find for ourselves, a kind of an Aristotelian mean which we are always ... blogger name. MEng, by the way, stands for Master of Engineering."]MEng in ... having a person I couldn't avoid checking in with."]for the first time in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... except for the second, fifth, and sixth floors are discontinuous in some ... pieces. the third and fourth floors, for instance, are partitioned in two

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  . i don’t have much to show for my time in college other than a ... , in making sure that whatever models i use for self-understanding don ... way to turn in your life.” i am an advanced squirrel working on a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better ... now we finally get to see the parts in real life. If you haven’t seen an ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  grew in an intangible way. Thus, I feel like there's nothing to be ... do so likewise this year for you all EA'ers! *[ also = „ÇÇ ... 's already the Class of 2013! In honor of what I'm going to do during IAP

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  of ice water (much deeper in places), just sitting there waiting for ... weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... /the grocery store/class in the cold. So basically every day I've been

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... 's still been done for a couple weeks now :(" And Anonymous wrote, "Why have ... of my information in on time. Why did we not recieve our financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in ... found a really good job, and an apartment in Boston, and I was ready to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... , the residents repainted it black, with one coat of paint, in maybe an ... to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018