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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  And now for something completely different. Sam is allowing me (Ruth ... Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and ... my harrowing adventures tutoring writing for the Media And Technology

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  every term since sophomore year, and taking 36 units this semester is a ... In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  since leaving MIT. And it's a constant reminder to me (and others) of my ... moved west to Palo Alto for my master's and decided to stay when I ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A ... closed and many people off campus, the usual hustle and bustle is gone. It suddenly is incredibly easy to find yourself entirely and completely alone

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  paper. Since I had some free time yesterday, I thought I'd run the gel and ... . MIT doesn't admit students by major, and you're totally free (once you ... little ahead by running a protein gel -- I had run the samples before and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  see words and sentences related to work, money, food, culture, and other ... and l'IUP in Paris. So far, we've done word associations and sentence ... , and we compare and contrast the different responses to gain perspectives

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  15.27182 – Lecture Anatomy 101 Prereq: None, Units: 1-0-1, Lecture: M EVE (11 PM-midnight) (iHouse), NO FINAL

  

  as 18.02, 7.03, 14.01, 5.12, 7.012, and numerous others. Restricted to ... Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  So Development Lab (D-Lab), one of my classes this term, announced who is going on which trip this January. I got my first choice country, and will be spending Independent Activities Period (IAP) in Zambia! We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  after your first term, and at any time during your course of study.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... future application and someone else's on balancing scales. The cynical

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... their classes this semester, I thought I would show off how naked and ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud wrestling pit and matches. Meat -- well, that's obvious from the name of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the ... and a 1/3 chance of no deaths. In this formulation most people prefer ... course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  the original parts and then pick a team name/theme. Dress up and have a great time. As interns, Ian (the kid who works next to me) and I were ... Prototyping Lab, they do all of the 3D printing for the model shop) and formed

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... I started mirroring and slowing videos so I could mimic them. A few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  destroyed, and I found myself with unexpected free time in the second half of ... into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  and I send to all the new bloggers during blogger training: The ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth ... can provide, so you should feel reasonably free to write about things

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  yesterday, and two weeks since my last blog post, which also still feels like yesterday. And September is also pretty much over, which shows just how ... amassed a large collection of various colorful shirts and trinkets This

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  , before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful ... -style Twitter bots, which actually do take source texts and produce randomly generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014