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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  lab requirement for Course X. It's taught in the sub-basement of ... going to be on Sunday nights, and one of the TAs wrote this apologetic e ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed ... .2060 "Blackbird" lab kit. It's got most of the electronics we need for prototyping

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  that the life of a graduate student is not as exciting as an ... fortunately, I remembered my password today and given the start of a new school ... academic reasons). The past two years have been full of excitement from

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... through this entire bin of orange, red, and green markers until she found the one blue Sharpie in the entire thing. These folders were on sale

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  organized by the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (of MIT) in which ... of 2018 "disorientation" event at the aquarium, which is a senior class ... rock club i moved to simmons this year following the shutdown of senior

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... a language barrier, one of the largest challenges in teaching is

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music ... applications for most of the rest of the day, listening to my new music. Tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  with some pictures. So, to answer all of your questions, here is the ... fact that most of the events are on Saturday afternoons, which means like 3 people oversleep every week. Also of note: the awesome drum cart

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  braggy and say that on top of all of that stuff, I even like some of the ... best kind of fun. And so when Snively suggested that our annual beginning-of-the ... Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... all of the views expressed here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... someone about them. The brothers of any fraternity who gave you a bid want ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... piece of art that changes every time you look at it. I wonder about the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... learn about the cool new ideas that are changing the world. Of course, it ... doing this kind of stuff, but I quickly got the hang of it again and was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive ... Fellowship. Part of the application required that I give the name of my ... I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the ... of 2013 facebook group. Sophomores and juniors can attest to the fact

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  Here's a list of things that I consider love languages, because the ... . I take Spotify very seriously. One of the first things I do when I ... interesting way to get to know what kind of person they are. Also... The

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of ... required from you. The most important rule of having a application missing ... ; edit: some of you appear to have had multiple copies of the email sent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011