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• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... that may be six, since I'm still waiting on one. You do want to get involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  an email on my radar as something to send, and then forget about it for ... having to work out a plan for me to do the requisite work during IAP. Despite having been given three weeks to produce the final paper for my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  : reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something ... greatly for your submission to Annalen der Physik. After a careful review of ... for your submission to Annalen der Physik. We hope that you do not take

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

    Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese ... enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  like looming deadlines and assignments to really get the procrastination ... it filled me with renewed vigor to get better.   [caption id ... sad to me now that for the past year, I’ve been making very slow

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  and opportunities I've been given, and am very grateful for, by ... adults who want to live vicariously through me, as if I'm being pursued by ... just eat at the dining hall for free? (This means I don't go to Boston

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  to get to work today. And that included stopping at Laverde's for Froot ... ). And it took under 10 minutes to get there. It takes less time to get ice ... -- and ours had to be "custom configured" by Adam since Macgregor has

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  need to wake up, shower, get ready for work, and then travel to the T ... at the classes I have to take for my major (Mech E, course 2). Every ... class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  lab--I even got to train some new UROPs. I finally cross-registered for ... hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and ... apprehensive to go back for Junior year because I felt like I'd regressed from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT students get in free with their MIT ID Card, which is always exciting ... benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... the bellows to the camera body, readying it for its first (and hopefully ... are 8 inches by 10 inches in size. For an illustration of this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time ... interviews has changed (though Stu's advice on how to prepare for it remains

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  taken some photos for you guys to see these machines :( But this just means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  happened, but I’ve got to get back to making pretty pictures for my ... ;? Congrats to Bryan for completing it! Bloggers have strong track record; Mitra ... /AIDS initiative. He served for six years as Senior Advisor to President Clinton for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  legit =). (Thanks to Kim Shive for the extra info on Team Blatieshoe ... . So, you can hold team members accountable by sending emails like “Get to the gym!” and when that doesn’t work, “Get to the gym… seriously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about ... to mit, you add yourself onto lists, and then you get a deluge of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a year of calibration for me in many ways, beyond just adjusting to a ... Hi I’m Audrey, a new face in this bloggerverse! As the illustration

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  complaints about foul odors and damage to the dorms caused by animals. "We had ... . "Sometimes the custodian will hear it crying or scratching to get someone ... MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008