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• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  , collaboration, and collective intelligence. It questions the old approach: Why ... school for as long as they want. The fastest student graduated in a year ... colleagues make it clear that 42 is about cutting-edge innovation rather than

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  should not only blog it but illustrate it scene by scene" (how am I so good ... it. This morning I got to go to class as it rained ice (yes, ICE ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  , my phone alarm played the following song: I snoozed it twice, and I ... met with a counselor to talk about life. It's a nice break to go there and talk about things, and how to cope with the pressure that is MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  learning English, and now - ten years later - I can't imagine how I would ... " - and who cares about the future, as long as I get yummy sticky rice and REAL bubble tea everyday? So it really hit me when I logged on to the MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  canceled. If it does then I may be stuck in Boston for Christmas because the ... It's over. Dear god, that was rough. Seriously. Freshman year I thought MIT was tough, and it was. But that's all it was, it was tough. It

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  . My professor wound the timer, said “go” - and it began. I described how ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... fantastic amount of energy to create a universe.” ^ I'd give it an 8. Maybe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  insane about AppleBake. We're so into it that our floor shirt has this cute ... whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick ... mixed, it was time to bake it. Hence the name "baked ziti." I grabbed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Period, but I think "It's Awesome Pterodactyl" is much more descriptive ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures ... gear, it should be no surprise that I'm thrilled to be back just in time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What does the D-Lab do?

  D-Lab is building a global network of innovators to design and disseminate technologies that meaningfully improve the lives of people living in poverty. The program’s mission is pursued through interdisciplinary…
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT have a Financial Aid Calculator?

  We have two calculators. The MyinTuition Quick College Cost Estimator provides a quick estimate based on six questions. For a more in-depth review, the Net Price Calculator will help you learn…
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  research deals primarily with Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 (GSK-3) and its ... protocols and getting me familiar with the lab. It’s been a rather ... I haven’t worked in a lab at MIT, I can assure you that it’

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  people when I tell them my major. Admittedly, it does feel a bit special ... ’t I think of it that way before?” Sometimes it’s also, “Did I ever need ... . Professors who interpret it later in class amaze me. My favorite readings are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  , email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of ... for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It ... sites manage to do this, and to do it well. Probably the best known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings ... inginburei (hypocritical courtesy - being so overly polite that it's seen as ... )"][/annotation] [annotation note="some short-term and long-term goals i have in apple

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his ... . As luck should have it, "the day" came on July 7th of 2008, and now ... . In the words of the incomparable sage of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg "He is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... are grad classes, but it's perfectly fine for undergrads to take grad classes. Hey, Mollie did it! In fact, the line between grad and undergrad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  's a long and not terribly interesting story, but the short-short version is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to ... Malkovich (a great but disturbing film, if you haven't seen it), where John

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  affect minorities and the college application process. Does that mean that ... student in the class standing up in front telling everyone how he or she ... ; Tell with how I spent my summer solstice. (Unlike most of you, the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a ... last week or so. TDI was, as it has always been, an incredibly rewarding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011