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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Jake told me it had been on one of the 5.111 lecture slides and i had ... Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October ... Dinca, Department of Chemistry, and the “Mechanosynthesis Group”, led by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... able to explore a little more of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and ... on certain weekends, and my friends and I decided to go on a whim

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the class, we work on various research projects, taking and reducing our own data. usually, we take projects various people are working on and obtain

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  home), and I even saw the first snow of the year a few days ago. It ... , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now ... in between. You learn a lot of these things through trial and error

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  single morning. I stepped onto the sidewalk and took another picture of the ... morning and night, especially when there are dorms on MIT campus that are ... habit of waking up five minutes before class starts and frantically

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  about interviews, especially as an admissions officer on the EC team and ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is ... only to show a different side of yourself but also to get to know us, and

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  also my chance to discover and create. On the other end of the spectrum ... share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the ... and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  've helped make that will live on after me, this may be my favorite, and it ... ! I'll probably blog a rundown of MIT 2021s and their projects later ... any pictures of it, but my slides are here. I did, however, take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  have you guys been up to? Remember to call home and all that, and visit ... MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space ... but you can't reveal it yet. And good luck to those of you starting grad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the ... can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... ’s Esther Duflo, who focuses on field experiments and development economics

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  on the couch of an MIT dropout and spent my days solving programming ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start ... Minsky, and my future image of myself was in a white coat tinkering with

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right ... during the training, so I wrote on it instead. On the bottom of the ... handouts. I don’t actually remember reading any of the handouts that much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  the typical 3-4 class workload and graduate on time without any ... conversation on. And I think this really goes to show the nature of MIT? A lot of ... -full of questions for all of us current MIT students and I find myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  decide to go and do it all over again. What were we thinking?!? :-) I'll be out for most of June on paternity leave, but will still try to blog ... summers. To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  be on your health, and the health of your community, and not worrying ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  there is a sort of coordinate system for buildings on main campus, and you ... /integral and multivariable) and two semesters of calc-based physics (mechanics and E&M). I'll note that I'm not a huge fan of math, but even I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  , I’m on the committee that runs the program (along with Cami, Alan, and ... which only the (figurative) voices of the artwork and the occasional ... exploring the concept of home, including one piece that was just a solid black

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , outlining the pros and cons of some decision. I guess my anxiety gave away my ... school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... from organic chemistry, notes on plays by Tom Stoppard, and equations

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and ... and mineral deposits from the constant dripping of water

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... space deeper and better understand the nuances of sorority life. And

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021