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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can ... each of these classes by typing the subject number into the Course ... 5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep ... ’s more that, well, I just feel like a citizen of the world. One way of ... was half-Ethiopian, and thought I was completely Asian. Some of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years ... , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... building to connect the major cities of Sichuan, but I couldn't have been

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... wealth of activities on the IAP calendar with my busy schedule of turning

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Today, we continue the series Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ... ’s getting ready for summer classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ... hard, but at the same time, I'm real proud of him."

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All ... Asian American author) The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional ... interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  here, only short on time. Sometimes the energy of inspiration is enough ... Scholars outside of the Metropolitan Opera     ...and before ... the Metropolitan Opera and explored the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... intention of only completing four. Drop the other five! Maybe you just want

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business ... won the "Best Produce" category in Boston magazine's 2007 Best of Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  relationships over the course of doing problem sets together. That's cool, but for ... Eddy Library Mike's Pastry in the North End Museum of Fine Arts Wang ... top it Yum yum -- romantic dining Aujourd'hui -- at the top of my list

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening ... , and filed. The process of receiving your applications takes time. First ... , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... off bags, then went right to the venue for an afternoon of sailing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has ... dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... mind: “At the end of his wits, his mind reeling from all of the bad news

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the ... . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds of people in cities around the Northeast. Joey faced a tough choice in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... gather up hundreds of low-income, high-achieving students from all over the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... , the future of cars, and Bill Gates at once, even if it means I just have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010