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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  Pika (69 Chestnut Street) I don't know how many of you had the luxury of ... , but I did =) Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to the event, BUT

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  how the recommender intends to submit their materials, because it will
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  almost any form, from how-to sessions, forums, lecture series and films, to ... materials Beekeeping 101 Make it: Pinball Ikebana: The Art of Japanese
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs ... lyfe) and about how to mentor younger people and run large groups. I had ... , because I worked a job all summer. Don't do this if you can avoid it, kids

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  find it branded (twice!) with some obscure and slightly intimidating ... the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in ... finals.. I mean I guess if I’m being dramatic I could probably define it as

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in ... later (with photos and videos, so it'll be much more interesting than just ... more people come out than during the day (if it's possible) after dark to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  in Fall 2007. It certainly showed me how much I liked physics, though ... how many students participate each year, but it's on the order of 80 ... What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  some serious dedication-remember how i said it was COLD? We stayed ... 's team qualified with a decisive victory. It was less than a week later we ... 're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  reflects another significant principle: that of working smart, and how it ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... phrased in a different way: If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  to finishing it, so naturally the best time to start working on it ... , you", and this is one of those times. WELL PLANNED, YOU.] Change - it ... change, we need change. On a more personal level, it's something that I

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

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  , and everything felt surreal, partly from how thrillingly unfamiliar it ... top of it all was how to keep the varying levels of proficiency ... journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  saying it is bad to be influenced by those around you, in fact that’s how ... personal biases and cultural influences. It wasn’t until I took a moment to ... understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  it now. 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms How to write good code, and ... ? I like it so far. It feels like it'll be very useful, whatever I end ... -recorded differential equations spring semester freshman year. I’m impressed by how much

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  gave it a ceremonial sending off in the moat and sought a replacement. A ... -Snowman League, was attached to the traffic cone. Let it be known, to whomever ... awesomest hat ever, it should be here in about a week or two. We actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  based on how weird you are." ***** At the integration bee: "it's like ... "Overheard at MIT" and it's just a huge list of conversation bits that people ... that many MIT students have a general idea of how that works...but are a

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the ... world's leading IT media, research and exposition company") and ... MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  , it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not ... how 18.01 is a prereq and 18.02 is a co-requsitie for 8.02. Since I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  Here's the long-awaited guest blog entry on the Cambridge ... is placed on long-term retention of learning, has been a good ... because it integrates the foreign student (either from Cambridge or MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  given. Mildly disappointing is how some choose to take advantage of it ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... action and fun, certain things along the way make you think. It seems like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005