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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  mention that if you're good enough to get into MIT grad school, well ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... campus, hair dyeing (good luck explaining that to your parents), and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven ... unregistered commenters and I would get to approving this comment at my earliest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy ... I didn't pre-register for it, I was nervous that I wasn't going to get ... wanted to become a movie director. We also get to watch a movie every

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

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... between Tybalt and Mercutio? If Romeo’s trying to get in the middle of them ... have that make it ideal for telling this story this way? We wanted to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  learn to motivate and support your understanding. Furthermore, whereas ... graduate-level subjects, everyone at Cambridge, from your lowly genius to ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... ’s just pass/no record, another girl thinks to herself after getting her ... way it works is pretty simple: for your first semester at MIT, you get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... 's your chance to discover if you really want to become part of MIT - part ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... are just as likely to get into a rain bin as the water—the larger the ... as these to simply get from point A to point B, including to collect

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  themselves into an FPOP, allow me to settle your internal dispute: do it. You ... obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  off of jazz. It really made me want to get back into music; I've played ... can definitely do anything you want so long as you're willing to make ... recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  important aspect of your academic and social life. Sorry to draw upon Harry ... , you pay tuition to your home university, but room rent to the university ... to your major and how many people within your year in your major want

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  enough to get some solos in Fugues songs last year, and when I did, I found ... this … You become just what you have given your life to be. Not merely ... ability to transcend the goal, transcend the success of the best, if you get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  home! Monday was my day to get work done. I got much less work done than ... had to get back to the busses by 1:00. We made it! Then we hopped into ... recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  documentary about yourself is that you are the narrator and you get to decide ... coping method, getting to college and no longer needing something to fill ... documentary uses a lot of archival footage and images to get the image across. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get ... , most students who do UROPs do not get to publish their results either

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  bashes a thinly-disguised ex and upload it to Soundcloud only to get two ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022