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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  autograph my problem set. Now to see if they want a guest spot on my blog ... hustled over to the crowded lecture hall to find no seats, but in all the ... So it's Nobel Prize week, and this year, MIT has been able to add

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were ... ! Summer before freshman year = time to relax."]desperately needed a break ... 't know how to do a traditional task, or when my predecessor was officially

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . No harm done. A little after midnight I went to catch the last T home ... subway lines and a few major roads. "Hmm," I thought. "If I can get to Mass ... there, right where I left it last time I came on a dinner mob to Bartley

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... of this post. Since coming to cambridge I've had a wide array of ... to the halting problem. You'll spend hours working on a problem only to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... to sleep. But there is learning to be done! So I make a mental note to ... classes ended, I ate a quick lunch and hurried off to my writing tutor

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate ... intended to support a student in a full-time course of study." In other words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  still “under construction”, but I first wanted to give a shout out to an ... Program exhibition.   Yes, that does seem to be a photograph of a ... exhibition is still a great place to wander through. It's a pretty eclectic

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn ... , where we got hot coffee and bagel sandwiches and went to find our ... ,[/annotation] or ‘monomyth’, characterized by a call to action, descent to another

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... did cheerleading, because I got to have fun with a great group of people ... inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in ... myself. I've been surprised to learn that there is a community of students

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... , and deep inside I find a rare form of happiness that I've been waiting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... one hand (since the other holds on to the broom). We used a volleyball ... /Independent Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  live, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the different parts of ... and upperclassmen, and to get a feel for what MIT has to offer socially ... online. Reading it can be a uniquely good guide to understanding what the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  . Miso Ramen Soup It's really hard for me to find ramen that doesn't use a ... really good and I was very happy to find a vegan ramen option. Chilli ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  finding a way to teach a socially distant shooting class. i've been working ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... Busy With Things But Not Really. which is kind of a bad place to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the blog from a posting on another site asking about admissions officer blogs ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo ... the Courseroad of all the classes I took at MIT, it's hard to pick out a ... of knowing things was fairly simple. I either knew how to solve a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an ... I was a small child. I’ve now (presumably) grown out of it, to the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015