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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  , freshman advisors are great for advice on careers and that sort of thing, but ... end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I ... environments such as homes and restaurants. I have to take one more CI-M, and I ... favorite parts of high school, and robotics is the main reason why I ever got

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems, and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... to you to piece them together. And this is what some of my plants

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  stellar corpses that emit two beams of radio light and spin around like ... can do any of that, I need to learn some German. Fulbright agrees, so ... painter is working on a series of paintings of German puppetry, a journalist

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  think of any other topics you'd like me to focus on, let me know. And ... finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of studying, I'm sitting on The Angela Monster's bed with May and Liz '11 and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... 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 / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... a scalar product, and got a 42 on it. But then I realized I was on ... is the mace?" and I wrote down "a popular brand of pepper spray." It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any ... Orientation, but then second term, you join the rest of the world and do things

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  break and only a small handful of people will be answering phones and ... any time on January 1 or before, but try not to wait until the last ... recommended, the interview is not a required part of the application (and

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... , and they were not amused the second time he tried to put it on. By the ... melody and apparently my fingers did, too: I had the ghostly experience of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and ... . I still know and talk to a number of people I met during CPW, whom I ... 't spend too much time in any one place. This one's a broader version of the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and ... a significant amount of sitting in coffee shops (rip) and studying for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... can briefly forget about the things you can't change and focus on the ... , weary traveler of the world (or at least the internet), and rest your eyes

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  produce 80% (read: majority) of your result on the exam — and figure out ... studying, I'm on fire. But it's often hard to get into that state of high and ... work on building my Source of Truth and add in more examples and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous ... of "things to stress about." (Especially because I like my job, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for ... i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  out of brick and concrete. :) People are pretty split on this issue ... out. Do a lot of people come in undecided, and are there any sort of ... biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  bit of a know-it-all, because come on- who could have it all, as she had ... of kindness, generosity, patience, and general wholesomeness is exactly ... on Friday night and still get up on Saturday morning ready for the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020