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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  class is taught under the MIT Prison Initiative, with philosophy Professor ... for their crimes. To hear an MIT student’s perspective is interesting ... professor is speaking a foreign language. This bipolarity often occurs within

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  , but everyone who goes to MIT is a person, and people need sleep, and ... ,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT ... 't very, very quick (because it is), but I've definitely found that it's way

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena" but had never seen it. I knew MIT students had e-mail accounts but who

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  ="a convenient place to find EVERY MIT PERSON EVER"]search.mit.edu[/annotation], I ... . My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT ... swimmingly. The food is delicious. We talk about a variety of things: our

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that ... during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was ... mailing lists lack clever names and all of them end with @mit.edu. Since

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  good college social experience? Is MIT so difficult that I will be ... for yourself as to whether MIT or some other school is the right match ... May 2 postmark deadline, is anyone still making a decision? If so, what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  It’s summertime @ MIT! I'm relaxing at home after graduating last ... . Who: 9 students from MIT and UC Berkeley What: Biking across the ... take a break from MIT and the physics I had been studying. That trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a ... like bathrooms and elevators on the MIT floorplans, but vending machines

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  her for life outside of the MIT bubble. I love hearing other students ... . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  fields with MIT; our co-identification with STEM is a core strength of the ... conclusion: SHASS is awesome and you should come to MIT and study (in) it! ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW), MIT hosted the inaugural "Taste of SHASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... map and realize how absurd that is. Schrodinger's train, perhaps? And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being who you are at MIT. ------- When I found out I got into MIT, I was ... , when other people found out that I'd been accepted to MIT, their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  self-misconceptions. Learn to change. It’s essential. MIT is a pressure ... year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  this blog post. It is highly relevant and important. As you all know, it is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... times in a single minute! This type of sneezing is dangerous, especially

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , this date is July 30th, the date by which all MIT students and all ... it is almost impossible for work to be as difficult as MIT. During the ... will miss the most about MIT is its vibrancy…I passed multiple groups

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  has been that course 16 is rigorous and demanding as all MIT courses are ... MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  ? Aditi is from California. At this point, MIT doesn't release admission ... mean that it's pretty much my life...) in FFA. Is there anything at MIT ... department here. I checked with Matt who said, "MIT is not for everyone, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  : What is the difference between MIT & _____________ (Fill in the blank ... !!!!! Fun, right? This is how MIT students make a paper airplane (I found ... people as well.... Nevertheless, the point is that MIT students are just

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009