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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  invented at MIT to teach the fundamentals of how to program. The first class ... teaching people not only how to program, but how to think about programming, and how to take big problems and deal with them. There are a lot of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in class Introductory Chocolate Tasting Sports Statistics; How to Manage ... .606: Introduction to Stagecraft. How awesome is that? Here's the course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... me. First, I went to see "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" with Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  fully carpe diem-ing or whatever. Is how interesting I am proportional to ... interesting place? Or to how much I do compared to those around me? I feel that ... .” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  't sure if I was going to make it through my first semester classes, yet ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  Toscanini's run with some others and guessed how long it would take to run ... I checked my Timehop today and saw a tweet about how I was stressed about college essays. It's interesting how life changes. A year ago

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to campus six years ago I took every opportunity to talk with current students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  makes me happy* with the people I like**, when and how I want to ... I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th and hiked to central Maine, traversing over 2,181 miles in four months

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  at least to when Les Perelman was demonstrating how the SAT Writing ... have expressed concerns and have been seeking guidance on how to deal ... of ideas about how to continue from which students may choose. In some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  , attempting to escape the zoom rooms which fill my life now. i love the color ... described as a golden retriever bounding between everything from scrabble to whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  stressing out about the next closest due date, unsure how I was going to ... for Christmas. There's an IAP class at MIT where you can learn how to ... attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... . Aside from that, I also learned how to work a telescope, develop film, and ... school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A little bit about me and my trip to La Republica Dominicana A trip to the Dominican Republic to compensate for a bitterly cold Boston winter

  

  My first personal entry, how exciting! For some background info about me: I'm a rising sophomore planning to major in Mechanical Engineering ... just got back from my second visit to the beautiful town of Punta Cana in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  [/caption] joon also made this DOPE WEBSITE for a final project. to clarify just how ... blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to ... this style. i like to think that i was their inspiration :,) i'm not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  me? how hard is MIT *really*? i dont know if i'm smart enough to go to mit. how do i cope with impostor syndrome?? And a lot of things ... how the school works. I was someone who entered MIT expecting to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you ... very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  question of how to balance my passion for the science that I do and the ... I don't think this is good. But I also just don't know how to break ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022