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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... learning everything that they do. By comparing the genomic sequences to the metabolomic data (two huge data sets with a lot of unknowns), I can start to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  . the foreword by ross gay was enough to dissolve me into tears. i did a ... have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a generation of other undocumented engineers to strive for a greater goal. Now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  majoring in CMS and looking to get a job in the gaming industry next year ... something, we get, "Hey wait, are you a girl?" (followed by half a dozen ... ordinary that I often forget all about them before I get the chance to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  note="Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink ... . I really want to make a second part for this post if I get the chance. ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... ," a fairly obvious nod to Hedwig et al from Harry Potter. A few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  purposes). That...gulp...rejection (yes, it was a very difficult word to say ... have a great experience at any of three colleges to which I applied. So ... applications and I'm thrilled to have had the chance to get know you through what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks ... much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  been hiking and exercising a lot, and trying my best not to get burned by ... surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... when I get back to campus it'll be back to IHTFP, but in some weird

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  stop myself from trembling with the thought that I’ll get by no matter ... that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  players had to their characters. A lot of D&D is determined by rolling ... 've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by ... sitting around a table, roleplaying to a significant extent, and rolling a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  years and upperclassmen, and get a feel for everything MIT has to offer ... . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  behavior and human foibles just by observing people in relation to their cars ... Sloan's Back to the Classroom series in 2005, a little more than a year ... of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and ... "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  , to get a jumpstart on the curriculum, to finally fix their less ... inability to get a 40 on my multivar final to some extent, but most of my ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Russian to be a more valuable volunteer, because a lot of people served by ... Linktree has a few links to my different donation incentives. It’s the first ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  get done… ESP Retreat: Every semester, ESP has a retreat to talk ... a few teams to MIT for HMMT, a math competition run by students at MIT ... : we have a weekly meeting on Sundays to help plan our competitions! With

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021