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• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... remember all the times my professors stayed a few minutes after class to ... by ice cream at Ben & Jerry's, and refused to let me pay. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... up clarifications of concepts we learned in class, I get a slew of ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  nipping at my heels and it seemed a bit irresponsible to not devote my full ... 'm back to update you guys with a few things that've made me happy over ... /San Francisco/Seattle/etc. so I need to get used to the cost

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  seniors get one more race after all. Another "two seconds" go by, and I'm a ... 't matter, they're just yelling for me to GO!-flashes by in a second. What ... getting maybe one card a month? How does that change anything? Yes, this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... a tremendous responsibility since, well, we've never not had a dorm to ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  you get judged/criticized by your peers at MIT? That's a tough one! MIT ... program. And it's common practice to get a higher-paying internship over the ... textbooks, which saves money. You can also save a lot by getting off the meal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of ... a booth right next to Boris'. Despite spending more than fourteen ... try to justify my ignorance by saying that I'm not really that dumb, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  in Mumbai to get a rare opportunity in project planning on a major oil ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  . I transfect the cells, which means that I get them to take up a ... discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  you need a set of perfect test scores and grades to get into this joint. :) ... in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... go for delayed gratification; it's easier to work work work for a few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  Hey guys, I first want to start off by apologizing for not being ... and into the next year. I have a ton of plans to make sure you guys know ... will get a camera so these videos won't have such terrible quaility lol

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Priority B was good, and that I was almost certainly going to get time. A ... (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  safety training To set up a dropbox paper account and get ready to log ... actually going to get them to go near the speed of light? We can use a ... this is a post by my good friend aidan chambers '23 who is a physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... to one of my (actually Jewish) friends as a novelty item. So then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass ... (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us ... , like, get dressed. Comments 1. I am willing to bet that Bryan and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to solve mine. This blog is supposed to have a question on it, so I'll make

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of ... general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... school, you think "I just need to get into [top college]. Once I get into

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!