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• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  - he had been asked by the observatory (through the University of ... how inherently interesting all of science is.) Alternatively, it could ... My earliest memory of making a presentation consists of saying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... -- MIT alums are cool HISTORY OF MIT BLOGGING I'll keep this short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  , then those people decide whether to accept our offer of admission, and ... percentage of students who choose to accept our offer of admission. The wait ... decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF. If you're unfamiliar with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... angsty thoughts about life/the universe/everything posts) and reuse them in

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  -time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  receive a Masters degree in some area of engineering combined with an MBA ... distractions, and offers lots of desk space to spread out! Enough studying ... With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th ... by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the universe. It was a blurry moment of vague, smudgy happiness that I couldn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Analysis of Lecture Seating. Offered Fall term only. Happy Thanksgiving ... Practical introduction to the theory of lecture seating. Revolves mainly around the Oasis Model of Lecture Seating, along with practical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 23, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?

  students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required ... , chemistry, biology, and four years of English. We want you to take the most ... and IB coursework as college level and the highest level of rigor in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... , these web mockups offer a rare example of work I’ve made intentionally ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  . For those of you who haven't applied already, I strongly recommend that ... (Discover Brain and Cognitive Sciences) - but DUSP ended up being a lot of fun ... When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  miracle, nor is it a science. It’s work. A lot of work (and a touch of ... applies in the rest of MIT also. It’s hard sometimes to admit that you need ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  words). Content warning: death. Interactive science fiction comic book ... interactive post-apocalyptic? science fiction? surreal? story. It's dreamlike and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without ... do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... development of improved sports equipment. Kim Blair, the center's director

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006