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  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve, most of my First East floormates disappeared, their tiny suitcases ... prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  following quote:   One of the most important things about college is its ... sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds and you learn from each ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: So I went to sleep at 2am last night because I was trying to finish ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random bench in building 4 until my next class which was 6.005 at 11. Um. We

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  of coasters collected from my time in Munich. We start at the top ... (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let's zoom into some of the more interesting parts! On top we have a couple

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  earned at the end of sophomore year but premiered early during spring ... of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... at MIT, Mitra '07 was a member of her class's RingComm. It's all kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at ... part of the core curriculum required of all MIT students, but at their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  design a control system for a YF03 robot at Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at Iberdrola in Spain; conduct experimental investigations of rheological

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  "locker") and a website at http://www.mit.edu/~yourusername.And, of course ... , but start posting your Class of 2013 questions at the Orientation blog ... represents the transition of the newly admitted class from the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  out of that exam. After waking up at 5:30PM on Sunday night having only ... , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and ... isolation of the Clock gene in mice. Clock is the result of a point mutation

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each ... 've ever taken at MIT. Anyways, one of the attractive portions of the ... at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  because at Manray, despite the large numbers of good dancers, there's always ... students help. Many students said he was one of the best people they met at ... days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... computer science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  at MIT, and I love it. Here are some of the classes I am taking or have ... the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of ... , including a look at the "Table of Forms."  We would have lots of assignments

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  carts of food careening through the aisles and pointing at the nicest ... . Luckily, all of our mothers had instilled in us at an early age to always ... I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once ... favoritism leveled at the Ring Committee - of the 11 members, 10 are affiliated

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... applications." Emily at Olin:"For those of your checking your status pages every ... )I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  of different ways of looking at different things." There are also all ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... Talented Youth (CTY). I'm glad to see one of my favorite teachers from my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  Networking Brunch," and, perhaps the best of them all, Tech Night at the Pops: For 108 years now, Tech Night at the Pops has been one of the most beloved traditions at the Institute. Generations of MIT alumni, guests

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005