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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... Kathy's post (A Day in the Life...), but I should also point out that the ... what subject you are studying. I went through Course 18, to study the

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that, despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large population out there of parents who are readers of the blog. While most of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  college admissions-themed issue -- it is also worth a read. Here's the TIME.com transcript of the Q & A with Dean Marilee Jones: Ever since she first joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  I know I've practically disappeared off the blogs... BUT I promise I ... at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 months. Here at Cambridge, instead of having finals at the end of each

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how albatross fly, this is probably not the place to look. I give an explanation ... [/annotation] but that’s a story for another time. The thing I remember most from my

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so I could only watch as my phone tumbled down, down, and crashed on the cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... CollegeHumor. The show has multiple seasons, with each season being a new D&D game with a usually familiar cast, with the occasional guest stars here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this ... considering what I wanted from the team during our elections this Spring. I ... , it was during the pandemic, so we were buying very few things. there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  it’s been a while since i talked about my life. the east campus house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was ... you when it’s safe again.” i love the ec house team. our move out day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  House Approved^TM lofts"]climb[/annotation] down my bed, throw on the ... again in order to not disappoint aikawa-sensei. the story goes like: i ... sentences using the grammar we had just learned. i decided to link my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to them for help and support throughout the year like MIT Together, MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I used to be. I have been trying to help TIM the Beaver get an internship in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back ... all the other kids. No, seriously- I remember one time my mom got really ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston ... problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... to be the least glamorous and least enjoyable part of the overall

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... . Unlike the murals, their contents change with the scale of days instead of ... floor residents are thinking of taking in the next semester, polls about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  keep you guys posted about as the year progresses. Huh. Guess I ... -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  occasionally but the last full mountain I climbed was in 4th grade, when it was compulsory, and shortly after I wiped the sweat from my brow, re-Velcroed my ... climb Mt. Fuji for the past few months, maybe because I don't know when I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself ... is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  sewing machine before, but I was armed with the false confidence gained ... , withwendy, and Micarah Tewers!"]DIY fashion youtubers.[/annotation] And the ... year was the year that the pandemic hit, so prom never happened and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022