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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  's not much trouble at all to get up the river, and you're allowed to take ... major! You just need 270 units above your credit limit to get it, which ... possible to get degrees in two courses at MIT in just your undergrad years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  I've found my excuse to write a new blog entry. Remember way back ... copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... powerful, I'm liking this! I read on, hoping for an indication as to which

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  getting me to where I am today. At the very least, it was the source of ... strangest details remain. We don’t get to choose what moments we forget, and which we get to keep. Even those that are stored in some nook or cranny in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  practice the new material. And, at the end of the semester, we get to write ... class doesn’t get too abstract and is directly applicable to real life ... the course title is "gender," the class is focused more on how to do

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... midterms was not much better and I began to get really concerned. My fiery ... now stand my ground on what I believe in, as opposed to “agreeing to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  you're SO MEAN WHAT THE HELL ur literally charging ur phone on MY laptop ... kayode is about to leave soon which means that i get to say what i want b ... need to be heavily grammar checked later on. It's been real, y'all. But

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  figure out why. Get to know your PI(s). You want to get your name on a ... [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist ... it to make it to yours? If you happen to be in the market for advice

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails ... managed to zipline upside-down on my last attempt, although I never quite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a ... not enough space to go into them here']give them your intervention (in ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  be skeptical of promises to revolutionize transportation from people who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... not listen to people who promise to make Mars safe for human habitation

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... screens, so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  more insight. I feel like I'm getting closer to that moment, and it feels ... , Germany. I'm working on a research project applying machine learning to some ... term. I like to blame this on MIT, the hectic nature of structuring my

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science ... interaction with the research team, more contribution on your part. By the end

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  ’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but ... about how much i procrastinate on my work, there was nothing to consume my ... at MIT, where so much is going on and you’re surrounded by so many

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  likes to say, your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went. The last time I ... executive functioning: a (relative) inability to follow-through on the idea, i ... to stop doing, which I'll get to in a bit). One thing I've learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts (i.e. $75,000 cash prize and on-campus residency). In addition, he ... was able to teach us so much about the music that we did not know. He

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  to college admissions, once you get past the surface differences.) One ... had been on an MIT schedule, with classes and meetings tending to start ... all, "If you're early, you're on time; if you're on time you're late; if

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  guaranteed spot on the final day of competition, and get to relax and watch the ... efficient way to score points is to do laps on the extremely steep 60 degree ... early on to use my iPhone and iPad to control my robots via OSC, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014