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• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  concept album, which turned out to be because the titular band is the ... -sexual lyric "I'd love to turn you on," which refers to Timothy Leary's famous ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... optimism and self-confidence which is slowly reduced to dust over the course ... meaning of the word love with chicken noodle soup and shoulders to cry on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... ”, with pride. This is not to say that everyone in the US approves of the ... the consequences of alcohol abuse. Grace's article is a great read, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  whatever time until 4 or 5 Go to ZBT for dinner Go back on the van If it's Tuesday or Thursday, go to class from 7-10. If it's MWF, go to ... go to singing lessons and get better at fingerpicking songs instead of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  ,[/annotation] which went fine; i did a little better than i expected to do. saturday ... myself on the ground floor of the building, pretending to be lost in the ... my time is going to taking care of myself. my senses tell me he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  accurate to what's in the sandbox. The overarching goal of my UROP is to ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  either. I know this is a vague answer; I just can't think of a way to ... the SATI, on the application, the writing section is said to be ... )? Or is that for applicants who took the old SATI?" See answer to Irina

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  intersection of math and CS, is that we want formal models of computation to ... Turing machine, which is a form of universal type of machine that can ... whether or not they belong to the language? And the answer is yes. Things

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  . There is no better way to learn engineering than a better engineer tearing ... heavy or dirty it seemed, and we began the long drive to Hastings ... , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  undergraduates go on to grauate school to earn a Master of Architecture (MArch ... on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... 's Department of Architecture is the oldest school of architecture is the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  money is going to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund. I've been working on this ... , The pandemic is still weighing on you. Of course it is, but somehow that ... think that all of that is gone…  Time feels different here [compared] to

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be crazy-successful at taking advantage of everything CPW has to offer ... the Class of 2014. Again, it felt odd to be among the ten or so student

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... already now is definitely the time to get a new one on Amazon.com if your ... to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  . (the most plausible explanation for why they did better on the tasks is ... discusses applications of modifying sleep to help people learn better. we ... ; then they imagine a room where the scary version of the nightmare is on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  people from the class to work on each of these four project areas. I had ... RATP (which I'll get to shortly). A photo of Madeleine station ... system. (I introduced this to you sometime in February.) Our effort is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  it is an assessment on neuroanatomy, which this happened to be. (We ... of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because ... to try a new recipe, so once the bread is rising on its own, I'll cook ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  ), which are designed to allow for sustained and/or creative thought on a ... that I always have an hour or half-hour break after 11 am, which is great ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  I ran into a group of friends the Sunday before finals on my way to ... headed back to campus until Saturday, which is practically forever and a ... , Massachusetts (or wherever it is you guys end up), and home will take on a bit

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  any pictures of the play, which is really sad because one of my friend ... apparently Jax Kirtley is, and since their photos are on the Wild Party photo ... about it, but I saw MTG's production of Cabaret early this year which I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008