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• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  audience. (Once you've been at MIT for a while, there are only so many non ... First things first: there was another home football game today -- at ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... ’ve been nice, but I believe the whole point for many UROPs at MIT is to ... publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  sleep. I guess she wasn’t around for my first two years at MIT either, but ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  reasonable for eight hours at a theme park. Actually, it was just about worth that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  , various SIPB classes, and 2.670. I've been at MIT for three years. Some ... you. You won't. Even if you stay at MIT for grad school, you won't. Just ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  , but a lot of people would probably laugh at me for being so weaksauce ... same classes, at least you’ll be there for moral support!). Then there ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  at the 2018 American Solar Challenge (ASC). Our newest vehicle, Flux ... crossed! Unbelievable Scenery at Scottsbluff, NE PC: Ashisha Persad On the ... potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  the band. These did prove useful for our director at the Anything But ... costs just about $2. And then you look at it and you're like, "$2 for yams ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... nice Snackpass ambassadorship, for sustenance. Now, living on my own with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  its rehearsals here, Next Act uses it for shows at the end of the ... I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  a term at MIT. For some of you, this might entail working a part-time at the mall scooping fro-yo for snotty little kids or watching people ... you to ome(at)mit(dot)edu * For non-logistics-related questions, and if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  basic introduction to life and academics at MIT. And for the record, this ... entry is worth it solely for the photo at the bottom. Nance: "I've Got 99 ... . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  've ever had (for 6.006) had his recitation at around 4-5 and he made me ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... 't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  neurobiology lab for not pre-registering for it before July. Normally, you pre-register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open ... violently ill the night before. I don't know how or why it happened, but for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  other and getting yelled at by the Sheriff for being too close to the ... for you fools. On our way back to the house at 1pm, boats were ... no less than 3 independent groups of Thetas there for brunch at the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically ... ? Ich auch. There are two main exam periods at ETH: the End ... get at MIT. However, that means that students at ETH don't necessarily

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  and Angelina Jolie order for lunch at an Edmonton eatery? Is a GE air ... weather was a lot nicer for the football game than it was for the parade. I ... for Gossip, Entertainment News, and Consumer Information Peter Cohn

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006