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• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... 'll experience at MIT, seriously. You'll be rushing around, meeting tons of new ... organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... ’m at this school. That, and I have trouble waking up to alarms. So this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... around during the waitlist period; you will lose your deposit at the other ... people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  , and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for ... , covered goods market. There, we bought cloth for skirts/sarongs (15 ... finding them, we did have a good time looking at the math, history, English

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... 's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most ... would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  at the wedding: software engineer/Kenjitsu instructor/author, Medical Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  some extra raps for inspiration, particularly looking at female rappers ... different media forms for my assignments! Here's everything I've consumed this ... . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... online for over a year i’d have spent more time at in-person club meetings ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... 's all totally not subjective at all - I mean, I spent a whole two ... are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  see for yourself. I consider myself a nerd proudly, but at the same time ... 's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  dinner. Delicious combination. 8:05 PM: Crazy For You at Kresge Auditorium ... up. Wondered why anyone would ever be awake at this time. Wondered why ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  -driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... biotech companies to MIT campus (possibly for recruiting reasons or close ... sign in the cold for an hour vs. purchasing a sign holder."]when it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... cake at Downtown Crossing, before driving back to campus in time for a ... Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  Environment. As an MIT student, you can cross-register for classes at Harvard ... , Mexico and Spain) has a coordinator at MIT that helps you search for ... at the forces affecting the development of cities around the world. If

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011