Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event
The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named Emerald Parkway 20 walking minutes from the destination. Whoever made the track this far through the August sun must’ve cared greatly...
View ArticleBefore You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition
Imagine: you arrive on campus. It’s awesome. Breathtaking. Exhilarating! Remember that scientific discovery you always wanted to discuss in friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become?...
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Best Free Software for College Students
College students have to be productive. In trying to manage all my schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for programs and apps for productivity, note-taking,...
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The ‘How to College’ Masterpost
Holy Beaver! You’ve received your letter from Hogwarts MIT and you can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when disappearing into Terminal 3.14 at Logan Airport. Meanwhile, I...
View Articledear frosh: here are the things we want you to know
I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know. I added some of my own advice. Then I organized everything into the following categories. Some of it is excellent advice. Some of...
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CLAAASS
For First Semester Freshmen, Registration Day can be tough. You can only pick 54 class units, while using the precious Pass/No Record grading policy wisely. Online Tools Luckily, MIT has some...
View ArticleSome Advice
I've been doing a lot of reflecting lately, maybe because: - I feel old and unprepared heading into senior year - I just underwent adult bootcamp and lived alone for ~3 months with a job and a nasty...
View ArticleThe Freshman Application Is Now Live
tl;dr: Click here to apply to MIT. The freshman application is now live on MyMIT. Our online application guide, with an overview of each of the components of the application, including essays,...
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So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass
I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but including folks from mechanical engineering and the Glass Lab,...
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Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16
Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC: Igor Belakovskiy ’02. Hi! I’m a rising senior studying Mechanical Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has...
View ArticleREX at Random Hall
Pre-frosh have descended into campus, making the rest of us feel very very old. They will spend the next several days learning about MIT, departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you...
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Cómo Elegir Una Computadora Portátil Para la Universidad
He estado intrigado traveseando computadoras desde una edad temprana. En la escuela intermedia intenté configurar un arranque con Windows XP y Ubuntu, pero metí la pata, corrompí mi instalación de...
View ArticleEvery August
This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write, planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore,...
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REX at Simmons Hall 2015
As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently out and about enjoying their first week orientation at MIT. During Orientation, freshmen learn about academic requirements and...
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This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday
The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to...
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Test Taking at MIT
These are cheat sheets. I found them in my backpack this last week while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of last semester’s trials and tribulations in 7.05...
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“Picture yourself as a stereotypical male”
There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a higher capacity for spatial reasoning than females. A large-scale 1995 meta-analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a...
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Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide (Guest Entry by Elaine L. ‘18)
Image courtesy of greggavedon.com The following is a guest entry by Elaine L. '18 This entry was originally published on Elaine's blog Food Parsed on August 31, 2015. Buying your own groceries can...
View ArticleWhat I’m Teaching This Fall
Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. This fall, I'm teaching again, this time a new special topics course called CMS.S62: The Internet as...
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Meet the (New) Bloggers!
In July we posted the blogger application. 88 students began an application, and 69 completed it. A few days ago, Lydia, Kris, Michael, Ceri, Anastassia, Natasha and I met and we picked five of them...
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