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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  ’s structure, and case studies on real companies that look at the cultural ... , I’m taking Genetics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Introduction to Acting, and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena ... happen with frosh, questions were asked, and as is wont to happen with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... Internet? What   things on the Internet help you feel more happy and less

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  Lab (8.13) is one of the most infamous, trial-by-fire, taxing, and yet ... notoriety of the class and its near-universality among Course 8’s I am fairly certain that someone has already given a more insightful and better written

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  , and to meet a great group of 40 new people. The term is off to a ... guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his ... small fortune and a new life narrative. All of a sudden people were ... ? Of having parents who didn't disinherit me but instead sighed and said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  term in the literature is "peer effects", and there's a lot of really ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me ... graduate students in STEM and STEM-adjacent fields. This was a lot of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... revelations and possible blog beginnings and half-baked stories into one mess of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  techniques in a comfortable, grade-free environment. And looked like a freakin ... . No, really. I just started really reading textbooks this past term, and ... days, and 2) my beautiful air conditioner which keeps me cool at home

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  MIT committee that allocates money for building renovations and public ... now home to the admissions office and plays host to our visitors, I ... launched MIT Illuminations, a colorful lighting installation and introduction

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  't hurt, and ended up connecting us with real entrepreneurs while providing ... real way.) Anshul ultimately inspired me to take the leap and start my ... Kevin Rustagi '11 is a designer, entrepreneur, and musician whom I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  Practice, which offers real-world technology cases and projects from partner ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  last term, but I really need some money after that awesome ski trip I ... admissions site is really something, huh? I just look and I see categories, endless categories, and I want to fill them all with my insights on The MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  're rejecting and get some free food. You're not expected to switch dorms, but at ... information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In ... officially called Residence Exploration (REX) and unofficially called Dorm Rush

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and ... . The Land of MIT. And its inhabitants, the Students, look like this ... and had them stand next to each other, they wouldn't look that different

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  figure out the average length and width of a spine for each condition, and ... allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public. (But actually it was awesome, and much like a baby-PAX – a video game ... , artwork, etc. Test on family and friends and real gamers and accept honest

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  the office, she probably picked up the phone and connected you to the ... almost 8,000 emails to students, teachers, guidance counselors, and others ... an envelope and dropped it in the mail. If you were an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  decisions and dealing with the mail mixup. But it's been one of my better weeks all term, so I thought I'd tell you about it. Sometime early Sunday ... made the decision around 2am, went back to bed, and rose at the fine hour

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  Rat and a free hug from me.   Afterwards, the next two Ring ... Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015