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  “MIT Abounds With UROP Students” A photo spread about student research.

  

  spread about summer UROPs. UROP is MIT's Undergraduate Research ... undergraduate students doing real research. You'll hear lots about UROP as you learn more about MIT. You can read more about UROP from a student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  . Thus is the beauty of the UROP program. UROP, noun or verb ("to UROP ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want ... winner on his knees, begging you to UROP with him. "I'll even give you my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in ... ." "Get a UROP!" "I need some money." "Get a UROP!" "My boyfriend is cheating on me." "Get a UROP!" "It hurts when I pee." "Get a UROP!" But in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation]/ELO The go-to [annotation note="I just found out other schools use the term UROP for their undergraduate research and I ... blogs on UROPs already, so I won't beat anyone over the head with it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later ... down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  could always sell your soul and become a Tech Caller. Then there's UROP. I know that UROP is mentioned at least once every three blog entries ... deal at most colleges. At MIT, I've had two different UROPs over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Melis’s UROP Blog Melis enters the blogging community.

  

  Melis ’08 has started writing a blog, through which she explores “a different MIT student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One day last summer, while I was working as a UROP in the Media Lab ... , he invited my entire group (even lowly UROPs like myself!) to go

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  applications, my UROP, being a news editor for The Tech, and, well, living. The ... for my UROP, which involves modeling two road networks in Singapore (I had a meeting with my UROP adviser at 10am). Around this time, I also

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  my lab -- we do take MIT UROPs. At the very least, come have $1 ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  never forget the music I listened to on my UROP trip to Washington, DC. I ... right UROP (I got to make a guide to difficult conversations for mine ... have been my UROPs, and I believe they were also the best UROPs. You can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  summer visiting China, UROP-ing for Mediated Matter with two weeks at ... . I was still UROP-ing with Mediated Matter, still blogging, and even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  . :) 38. Participate in a UROP - did you know something like 80%+ of students here do a UROP? I worked with C. elegans all four years here, beginning from freshman spring. Although doing UROPs are fun and a nice way to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  ; often used as a noun or verb to refer to specific UROP positions"]UROP ... with this conversation: A: Why do you want this UROP? B: Because the topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  UROP or a job. Those are tricky to balance. Which UROP will accept the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program ... , as long as you’re qualified you’ll get a UROP as a freshman, become

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  Opportunities Program."]UROP[/annotation] under the Computational ... into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... had my UROP as the one thing I actively disliked. I felt like the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022