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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  "intersection between technology and communication/expression." It is also similar ... make it. With the only requirement being you have to take 2 classes in ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  college email, so it never hurts to amplify the message."]tell you ... disruptions to the secondary educational system that may make it more difficult ... email us to ask where they are—it will only slow our processing down. We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  whenever they do, it's an opportunity for me to venture down to 1E and hang ... room on Fridays. It started out as us being sad and talking about our problems, but it's evolved into a whole little routine--we order takeout and

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

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the ... Python. It's a short class that runs over IAP and gives you the pre ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  . Unfortunately, no one was listening. It was the mid-1970 s, and Perlman was a ... ," she said. It was one of many such situations. But she didn't let anyone ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  could change our lives. It’s crazy how quickly people can come together ... , maybe it really is.   I don’t know about what it was like at other colleges, but it felt like utter madness at MIT. People went fucking insane

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  sauce from Chipotle, then you're killing people. That's how it works. That's how genocide starts." “It brings me a small amount of comfort knowing ... whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  , the so-called "third astronaut" of Apollo 11. As xkcd puts it, the ... exactly what he said (there will be videos online later), but I remember how it made me feel. It was a feeling of witnessing something of great

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  physicists take it first term sophomore year, 3) really pretty great. But don't take MY word for it. Read on. It's 12 units like most classes here and it ... cause I will not talk to you if you are not holding a muffin for me.). It

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport, people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your ... and outside my control, i had an overall pretty mid time. it wasn

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  let you catch up to them. It sort of depends how invested you were in ... expectations." I decided it was sort of an unreasonable question, in that there ... springtime, it's entirely possible to be fulfilled and happy, even when nothing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  gym, which I adore so I really don't mind it at all. But, God, am I ... it's Tuesday or Thursday, go to class from 7-10. If it's MWF, go to ... from the day that I simply rot and watch Twitch streams because it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  things differently the rest of this year than how I started it. I want to ... Let this blog post (as unrefined, unedited and typo-ridden as it may ... realized I’d almost forgotten it was Martin Luther King day. Somehow I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle of October, fall semester of freshman year - and it had been one of ... lost its charm. I was sick of seeing unfamiliar faces everywhere when I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  struck by how intricate of an instrument it is; I learned, while studying ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you ... ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised ... : (Whether it's a scream of joy or anguish is a different question.) #3 – The ... that doesn't mean that we can't buzz about it. Pro: When the champion of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love ... ” writing a party invite email for a party that isn’t happening and send it ... for the entirety of the scavenger hunt take some pictures It’s a good

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... give a lot of people trouble - it's physics, not pyhsics; physiology, not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011