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• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  engineering discipline, and you wanted to use a programming language to do some ... Chandresh asked: Do [MIT] professors take courses? Professors and staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  , but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week ... . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all ... until yesterday morning, and even then I almost passed out a few times. As of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  Once upon a time, there was an application to MIT... It's a Monday, or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  , as I was doing with work coming from other offices. There was a point ... best bet, maybe I could do a bit better. I continued to work through the ... a cubicle, doing what I love.   Tune in next Monday for the epic

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a math joke. My roommate, a math major, is especially into them ... Mathematical Society Journal, with a link to the article below). Seriously, she

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  when I came across a list titled "Things I would do if I had more time ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... things I'd actually managed to do. I sort of wonder if there'll ever be a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to ... fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything ... it a chance to succeed is better than doing nothing. Lucky for me in

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I ... or RNA, and I can do that using a variety of methods. 3. Danielle ... Gregor, you have to do a little bit of maneuvering since the windows in the high

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college ... students do these programs. Like I said in my earlier entry, a summer of ... To accompany today's entry about MIT summer programs, here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  MIT. His to-do list is a mile long.) Anyway, new portlets. Here are the ... 's a lot of portlets. What do you guys think? What portlets would you ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  blog post would and should look like. I've explored the option of doing a ... find a cure for HIV. And when you do remember me, remember us, remember ... During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends ... program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you will find a professor who is ... MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , some have less, but you do kinda have to map out a courseroad if you ... ?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of what you want, with fewer requirements. “Oh, I know a guy doing that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn ... was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  Form, I thought about 6.0002 as a whole. Do I really need this class? Not technically. It isn't a Course 6 requirement. Alright, do I at least ... lot about what I want to do at MIT. Originally, I wanted to have a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  /statistics class. From Anna: Do you know anyone at MIT who came from a rural area or ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  . Even if I do a stretch after running which I forgot until the writing of ... Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I ... I'm really lucky, even through the 18.03 pset I have to do right after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006