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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... now. The real reason I'm writing about this is because it's on my mind ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  Viji wrote, "Hello, How do I RSVP for the info session? Your links takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ). You can review the list of meetings at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Huckabees Ben: Hero Matt: The Hebrew Hammer Mike: Wet Hot American Summer Sam: "Strangers With Candy", Season 1 Shana: A Mighty Wind Allison's Dad: The Sound of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  Changing World Technologies, you take a turkey, cut off all the meat and stuff that non-vegetarians might eat, then take the carcass, throw it into ... . To summarize, But, oops, Chester, looks like when you heat the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  to stretch yourself thin. You’ve all seen the graph- social, academics ... night, but that's because the triangle is an oversimplification of sorts ... , and it’s important to understand the mechanics of the game you’ve just

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  biology."]GIRs[/annotation] out of the way, so this was the first computer ... returning to my roots. Instead of the traditional bi/triweekly lecture + (bi ... weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  complete the first step. Take driver's ed, that's fine -- it's a rite of ... curated playlists, and realize on the highway that there's a little piece of paper stuck to the windshield. Is that a ticket??? Time to panic. Oh my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  was cheap at the time so to entertain my three year old self and my ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... of vicarious prefrosh cheer through the next few voicemails in a vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  commtment to the next. When classes began, I was fine: the academics were manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my ... the year, I can describe what happened pretty confidently. Here are some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  about that instead. To introduce the rad thing, I present to you Exhibit A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  /Math/Computers to the novice monks, and some local school children, and participating ... can say that the time spent in Mumbai was fantastic. The ... the interaction, academic and otherwise, with graduate students

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept right through the alarm.   1:00 PM: After debating if I really

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you know it snows up there? Nothing like the Vegas scene, but you're still ... that the internet is largely just bots and ai-generated posts designed to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the ... are now spread out across the country. CJ has “maybe gotten into rhythm ... March, we visited every station on the New York City subway in a 29-hour

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  ="Summer Science Program"]SSP[/annotation] knows that I have the tendency to do ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... , and I start grooving and schmoving. I’ll bop to classical, rap, and the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  an interactive diagram [annotation note="The new numbering system is ... the old system"]showing off the new numbering system[/annotation], build ... Gemini) uses up-to-date information and seems to know how the new Course 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  , so this is a nice change. i blink at the brightness of my room -- my blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and every time an adult passed me i’d tense up and brace for the possibility ... this impulse might actually be doing me more harm than good, and that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022