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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I have compiled a grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... own tumblr blog, so maybe 1/4 of this is still content that I wrote at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of postponing for another 47 days of drawn-out anguish at the accumulating height ... writing is concise and takes time, or at least a round of editing. But

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  COINCIDENCE he was going to climbing at the wall that night, and the rest of the ... circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny ... of rock climbing. So while the blip was more like a bloop, it was still

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  great. But quite a few of them have not, or at the very least have been ... So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... Hijacking of the Global Food Supply CMS Colloquium: Animation at the Beijing ... and professor of doctoral studies at the Animation School of Beijing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana, Evelyn, and I went to check out some of the exhibits. Now probably one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split ... light? I certainly did at the end of our tour because our zoologist was ... eternity staring at tarantulas. (It turned out that one of the other groups

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  hard together, harder than we think at any other time of the year ... friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at ... the Big Game and at this school are a kind of "type 2 fun". Here is a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  everyday we do a hike, pack a picnic, swim in some cold lake at the middle of ... common carnival Of passions and regrets, And gives the world a glimpse of ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  Centre of the Peoples of the Amazon before then. At the Cultural Center ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1 and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anyway. *** The most common piece of advice I've gotten since arriving at ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  at something that complicated and sort of maybe understood a bit of how ... One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... subject at hand, but these aren't the type of intense supervisor I want to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... actually smart enough to perform at this fabulous school with you amazing people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  component, down the leads of the plushy, and are soldered to magnetic snaps at ... . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018