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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Arthur Mattuck) 8.012: Physics I (often referred to as "Physics for ... come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  how much do I need to score in order for it to help?" A good AIME score ... mit.edu domain, to make it easier for students to search?" I would like ... Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  ethical dilemmas. Bonus links to two of the earlier readings for the class ... using philosophy to address real-world issues; she has written for The ... then travels 1+ hours to MIT for a 7-10pm class (half of my classes this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like ... the slides for 9.01 Introduction to Neuroscience with Professor Mark ... Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  for the locking mechanism to work, so I called instructions through the ... school for me). “I went to Harvard for graduate school too!” he said, “in ... to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  to offer and I understand that. As my fellow freshmen and I prepare for ... ’t know. Stop trying to pick apart my metaphor before it’s gotten anywhere ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... and hello panda) -- and it's not easy to describe. (For those of you ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  cause I will not talk to you if you are not holding a muffin for me.). It ... recapped the whole semester in preparation for the final. To the tune of ... . Original lyrics by Tegmark and Figueroa with special thanks to Einstein for

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

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  decide to do something for pleasure for more than the two weeks that makes ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it ... it for my dad. My dad really wants me to take it. Dad: If you

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  may not post offered to make a Clay-themed nametag for me, featuring ... getting them all for her, one by one, but to expedite the process, she ... Sam's Mom successfully conspired with Mitra to drag me to the Clay

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  . First team to find it wins. Winning team writes the puzzles for the ... ” computers). Somehow, finding this led you to the grocery produce number for a ... -variant word search. Stare at it for a few minutes, and you begin to comprehend

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car ... So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  class is infamous for taking a lot of time to do the work (but like I said ... was the right choice for me. I've really enjoyed coming home to an ... looking out for you, even when you don't want to inconvience anyone to tell

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  , since it wasn't a very full flight and I had a whole row to myself. 7 ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an offer which I gladly accepted (taxis from Logan to campus often cost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... take to school and back, twice a day for six years. When I'm walking ... Shuli Approved TM Playlist for this blog post: Taylor Swift's Lover

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... Next House had to offer, I decided to remain in my temporary dorm for the ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however ... that day though, I had a surprise waiting for me that cheered me up ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007