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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... million things to get into college. You just have to do a few things that ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  outside to take a break and get some fresh air. It was, however, raining, so ... getting up at around 2 pm and walking to get a peppermint mocha from ... rug, to get ready for a party, to relax after a long night. For some

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  by the fact that i don't have a lot of motivation to write fiction. gah ... performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... of the time it was because i couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  the MFA to see a screening of the documentary Urbanized. It is by Gary ... growth. I’m not going to give it all away, you should get ahold of a ... how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  and I will probably get to work with another language - R, a statistical ... chocolate science). So if you've ever wanted a chance to get some in ... to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... realized that maybe it was time to try sometime new. So when I saw a UROP ... [international UROP] along with a Kelly-Douglas Traveling Fellows Grant and to my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  campus, listening to the song Alewife by Clairo. We went back a few more ... feeling well rested, getting a delicious homemade meal, or listening to my ... by going to more office hours, getting more learning out of every hour

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  student gets to see a local doctor, or a local pharmacy, and you or your ... appointment with a doctor (which we had to pay for separately) in order to get ... for a project funded by NASA. He sent me to the library, which got me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment. 3) Humans of MIT a project started by our very own emad (and talented ... i absolutely love the blogs, but there are a number of other places

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... next four years. Now, there’s definitely no way to get the full breadth ... certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get ... Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  power drill. Apparently one way to get out a stripped screw is to dremel a ... use a flathead screwdriver to get the screw out. The rationale is that ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... security desk is the piece "I DON’T WANT TO SEE MYSELF WITHOUT YOU" by artist ... .[/annotation] As a fun fact, this is the first piece by an Indigenous artist on MIT

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... 5 chiral centers and takes about 2 weeks to produce at only about a 50

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  really want to be in a music group, or if you tend to get really nervous at ... musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me ... code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... wants to make a decision like that assuming that it would determine the

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  took a few days to get the essential furniture set up. Boxes were so ... took me almost a month to get my hands on a desk; thanks to my initial ... to get our common spaces more together, though. The living room was in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020