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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  ? AB --> BC Calculus in high school is designed to take about a year and a half. At MIT the equivalent course is 18.01. It takes 3 months. If ... months. And then, at the end, a final. This class is not a particularly

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... essentially a chocolate appreciation club, formed in 2003 as an extension of ... surprisingly, is popular and draws in members. During the school year, the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  is out pounding the pavement in search of a job. Book #3: Ender's Game ... change in living organisms in response to biomechanical principles. A ... writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby way or some intellectual dig. Rather, I think there is a special ... feels normal or even almost too bland for MIT, my personality in a non

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  Can you believe we have a GAME LAB? The MIT Game Lab brings together ... is to explore, educate, and engage the public by creating ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  in a larger company? Xian: Hm. One thing I've noticed is that, the ... is a respectable want. CJ: But isn't it true that I can find that in ... year is to come back in a year and find out yourself. [caption id

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  software site is a fully-licensed copy of Windows XP Professional -- I ... registrar database.) d) MIT is piloting a Jabber IM installation, and you can ... -and-drop Windows tool. f) Want to put a period after your middle initial in the MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... someone for, "thanks" is a good option. Otherwise, "best" is pretty good and ... —often as a result of changes in the COVID situation or during finals weeks

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  teller and her dad is a truck driver. My mom works in an elementary school, and my dad is a construction worker. We were pretty alone in our lower ... My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  This Monday and Tuesday, undergrad volunteers banded together in a ... of vicarious prefrosh cheer through the next few voicemails in a vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  stress in the form of a sticky note! I had to put it over an already ... a canvas for a beautifully illustrated stress sketch in the bottom ... , but there was definitely a decrease in our hosage. Sometimes, density of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it ... nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in ... matter where you end up, is a rapidly changing environment by definition

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  brownies featured on Oprah were a disaster in my hands. But, if there is one ... accessorizing? Is soft serve an option, or not? What’s my day been like? Am I in ... instead, here are some links to a variety of brownie recipes, in case this

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  live in a very nice apartment with jungle themed bathrooms or something ... in the BioInstrumentation lab, where I'm now the proud owner of a $45 ... everywhere!" and this is SO totally my word. Apparently someone else in the lab

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... doing great in that department, so it’s nice to have a single friend to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... representatives, and meet professionals working in a variety of fields, including ... 't going to be let into the Teen Summit area, which is a problem because I

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... when you’re in a conversation and someone is telling you about their ... friends. there are a variety of reasons for this: for one, theorizing is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and ... . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  was covered in the Boston Globe and slashdotted, MTG had quite a larger ... space in a Turkey vs. Spam entry, just in case you were planning to go see ... that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005