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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... .803 Political Science Laboratory, I wrote a 20-page research paper with additional ... provide closer relationships with professors, which lead to fantastic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Policy to RL circuits as you can see from the picture. With four or five ... Campus/ Barker Study Spaces I go here when I am with my friends! We have ... walk around me taking pictures with the Boston harbor background. I have

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  class is something not typically associated with MIT--costume design ... be like, I would probably have said "free sewing study hall", with ... someone who they are." That resounded with me, because that's why I love to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  (this time with cheery umbrellas over their gruesome signs). It was ... lead another external training with health providers at a non-Planned Parenthood health center. But the monthly/bi-monthly trainings with all eight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... weekend eating photogenic desserts with a friend who thinks everything ... , struck by the mental pileup of inconsequential observations that comes with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  are placed into groups, each with an orientation leader, to be their ... ) and will be sharing with them the many things I've learned at my time at ... think how I was attending these events with my friends as a freshman and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you ... maintain a healthy diet with vegetables such as broccoli. Reality: I gain

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... you're faced with design decisions, big scary machine tools that you ... different hills of different grades, with flags to pull, medals to collect

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  with not having enough time to pee, then moves to my poetry class, and ... , with access to more materials and the MIT Hobby Shop machining tools. The ... about the size of a paperback copy of Atlas Shrugged, with an extendable

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  I could learn the material on my own and catch up with the class. I met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a ... organization that helps students with all things health – from scrapes to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year ... two years. As I head into this season with requests coming into my inbox, I thought I'd update the blog post from six years ago, with added

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during ... fly down to Socorro, tour around the EVLA, and work with the Socorro ... system with another star, which periodically blocks it from our view.) I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  member last winter, I left the show with the feeling that there were so ... how awkward my body is. My stance is haphazard. What do I do with my hands? My voice sounds the same no matter what I try to do with it. My

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  $18.60.  That also means that if, say, you want to go out with friends ... having my own pan - people don't tend to be very gentle with nonstick pans ... .  Working with a dull knife is not fun (and pretty dangerous).  Groceries Most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for ... first encounter with Internet mathematics occurred when my high school ... a bit harder than what I was comfortable with, and I got a lot of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  life. Last semester's demos in 8.022 (Electricity and Magnetism, with ... 8.03 (Waves and Vibrations) with high expectations. I was not ... . I've always felt this resonance with math, but I think I'm starting to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write ... do happen with some frequency abroad). Instead, ask another teacher ... care policy with, the physics teacher who you challenge each day for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  soupy grey cold specked with watery yellow sunstreaks. By conservative ... the extra help with coding and performing routine tasks traditionally ... not the string theorists. Or LIGO, since LIGO was crowded with UROPs

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with ... missionary work MIT baseball player shares gospel with team before leaving on ... give him time to speak after closing the season with a 5-4 victory over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  initial outrage, tinged with a hint of sadness. I have a lab report and a ... be insecure, you might be panicking already. With headlines like ... counselor?" Attractive posters and online advertisements with grinning grads

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009