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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... to read and write than other students, and she has to spend extra time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... . I'd be tempted to say I'm a bit biased, as he was my 6.01 professor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned from my five-week expedition to India. Fine; even though IAP is ancient

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her ... awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  until a few minutes before I left. Quick! Stand next to the official ... family supported my interests, whether I said I wanted to be a teacher, a ... got to high school, I, like many of you, realized I loved math and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design ... . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time. Said illusion is currently failing to function. Case in point: Where did

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  your first trimester grades. Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your Guidance Office in order to complete the Midyear Report accurately. Your Guidance Office does not need to mail your midyear grades to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  's my chance to STUDY!" "I have some major catching up to do!" "AHHHHH ... 00t!) with my big Jessica (a girl from my sorority) at 10, get to the Terrascope room at 12 and stay there until 2 or 3 to work on our final plan for

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I ... being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on--that you're specially chosen, and lucky to be there. -Richard P. Feynman

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to ... longer. I don't think I've ever quite emptied a tube of toothpaste to this ... heart. There are much easier ways to fulfill requirements. Yesterday, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... impossible to satisfy everyone, you know? For example, if you really wanted to pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  on my way to biology recitation, I was stabbed by a deep, instinctive urge to blog about my shoes. Understand, reader, that I had journeyed by foot through many a congested intersection to the Cambridgeside Galleria

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... ), was scheduled to give a talk titled "Health System Transformation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be ... resorted to some fairly ridiculous ways to kill time, including an ongoing ... light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008