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• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  to shop around for a new one. At first I was actually pretty worried ... candy for me before tests. At risk of sounding cheesy, they're almost ... dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology program! I'm leaving from Boston tomorrow at 7:50 AM and coming back Tuesday ... in which you majored. Extracurriculars aren't considered at all for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will ... (including varves), and metamorphic rocks that formed at ca. 10 km depth in the crust. We will depart MIT at 8:00 AM on Saturday, camp at Barton Cove, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I ... -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many other signs as possible. It seemed like a good idea at the time, until I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... amazing. Exciting. Insane. Definitely take a look at the main MIT site and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Flourish and Blogs how to be a professional harry potter fan

  

  Klink. I'm a lecturer at MIT, and I'm the Chief Participation Officer for ... , who at the time was a professor at MIT. He wanted to interview me for ... & Goyle at MIT. That can be really hard to realize for some students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  at the classes I have to take for my major (Mech E, course 2). Every single course 2 class starts at either 9:00 or 9:30 for all four years of ... good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  poorly on the test. Finally, at about 2 AM (having been working for 10 ... Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6.004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  different residential communities at MIT. For those of you who have already ... arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with ... experience. For the rest of you, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT's dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk ... Ethiopian way, without any meat or dairy other than fish for 40 days. But this year I didn’t fully since I cook for myself with my dorm mates and it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  is make truffles! The Laboratory for Chocolate Sciences at MIT is a ... IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus, It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  . Inhale for 6 counts, hold for 6 counts, exhale for 6 counts, repeat. Take ... . Climb trees. Race down the hallway. Go outside and feel the cold for 30 ... most refreshed. (Pro tip for recovering from sleep schedule hacks and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  a fair price for their work, at least double the price they obtain in ... Emerge, for those of you who are familiar with Alia Whitney-Johnson: Twice ... available for purchase over the internet in the future. The proceeds after

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  ! As his associate advisor for a group of six freshmen, I got to tag along to the end-of-year dinner at the Wine Cellar Restaurant, just across ... , and chocolate fondue... paid for by the Office of Undergraduate Advising

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  -altitude long-endurance plane that can fly for five days at a time. 21A.819 ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend coming ... opportunities for Admitted Students coming up in cities around the globe within ... around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I ... have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the past few months or so, or at least the past three weeks), I disengage my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  . Discouraged. Grateful. Angry. Glad. These are all words that at some point or another these past few weeks (and for that matter, during my entire life ... posts at the moment, since the website was launched just two days ago. But

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011