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• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . 2) Brain and Cognitive Sciences Guinea Pig MIT has a ton of ... As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  find myself and some degree of serenity. As much as I'm jealous of the ... I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zOMG Zambia!

  

  - University of Zambia Disacare - wheelchair center IDE - International ... 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

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  's Department of Materials Science and Engineering created the Breakerspace a year ... spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  science, and not just astronomy. After we marveled that all of the elements ... every couple of months to give a talk, teach some science, spread some ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... problems of an 8.05 problem set, a science journalism essay, science ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  weird gene expression with varying degrees of histone packing and… actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I ... , you already had your college days. No applying to MIT!), and some of you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  ...and especially not the Surgeon General. So yeah, apply the "grain of salt" and "don ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  . You've probably seen some of the recent news about GPT-3 and Chat ... language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... college (or even admissions application) essay, to say nothing of broader

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Yesterday marked the beginning of classes, but today marked my first day of real classes. That's because I got uber lucky and only have one ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  regarding choosing between two sets of double majors, or how i’m applying to ... one hour. one chunk of my day that i’ve set aside for writing because ... host of other things i’m anxious about, many of which aren’t even my own

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first ... social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ...  (GIRs). Basically, you must take two semesters of math, two semesters of physics, a
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... curiosity. Below are some Highlights of my October, occasionally enhanced

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... while chilling in a café chock full of university students finishing their ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020