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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  translate to a variety of actual careers. I'd tried my hand at menial labor on ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a ... offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  're in college. Fresh start, right? You'll make TONS of new friends. You ... already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the ... between classes or in the dining halls. Throw on the pressure of classes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ask good questions. To look at a situation and see that there is ... the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  all the time. Or the pattern of the splatter paint on the walls of my ... construction zone all the way down Amherst Street to the corner of Ames and ... pictures of my friends. (Hi, Sam.) What made this different from all the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Newbury Street and spend a not-good amount of money on new clothes, and then ... If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been ... passed so fast it's like crazy. -Got tired of working in a biology lab, so ... ago I heard this playing on the background of an advertisement that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  goodness while walking the streets of our fair city. Finally on the topic of ... . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... -male a capella group, on their way from one serenade to another. But some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  new College of Computing, which coordinates computing education ... undergrads in this area, including one of the courses featured in the new ... the HASS website describes the new concentration: The Computing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  of street cred too!). *By the way, I copied and pasted part of this ... 're considering MIT (if not, you might be on the wrong website), here's my advice ... gatherings. Snapshot: Last night, on the inaugural evening of Spring Break, I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  for the love of all things green and good get OFF of those videos ... trace a mental list of every way we think we don't compare, asking what ... life path constantly weighing on me, the heaviness of not getting what I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  matter. Happy Halloween, good luck on your EA applications, and as ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... skimmed it, looking for any mention of chairs. Nothing on the front page. I ... installed on the side of every seat, below each armrest. "Maple

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... kind of writer I am. Would it be a good idea to submit a new one or just ... about sending in an elaboration on one of the summer activities I listed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  that new zealand grades on the N-A-M-E system? quirky until i had to ... that yeah i'm a good student for getting E's instead of A's"]our weird ... just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... , slouched in the corner of Howard Dining Hall with a melancholy look on your ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he ... lot of details on them, but as time progressed, we started adding more ... , discussing strategy and rules. on the server, alex would post pictures of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... Our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the mail we ... worry. We do not assign blame on why we don't have it, we just know that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... great website of Scott Hughes, my professor for 8.022. I was only ... way to see what physics is really like, learn a heck of a lot of problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring ... : ^ the hacker's map on the underside of the ring.  I like the nod to Bexley ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  find a good new release (or an old album by a band I'd never heard of ... of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007