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• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  figure out what I need to do to get into grad school, or if I even want to go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  microspheres that can potentially be used to develop a cancer vaccine. Genetic vaccines work by inducing an immune response to a protein that is produced by ... For the past four years, Sid Puram has had a UROP in the renowned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  September they reminded me to take a moment in my discussion each day for the families since this process is a tough one for them too. I took that to heart ... easy since there are many decisions still to be made. Before things get

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  that MIT is a place run by people, and people aren't perfect. For health ... one could be a coder and someone interesting for me to talk to at the ... (in which I get to play with the internet!), that zealous nature started

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  ) One of MITs pilot online courses for their new high-quality online learning initiative, MITx, 6.002x is actually open to the world for ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn't think it was possible to get so close to someone through just Zoom calls

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019: Communicating Across Cultures. The intro class to the Applied International

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  but be influenced by the people we care about. Parents, for one, is on ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... adjective than a unit of measurement, but by unspoken rules we have to keep

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... To Get Around MIT Making illustrations for the next How To Get Around ... guide "written by students, for students." You can get an idea of what it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  , Money, Money! 7-9pm, 35-225 Essential for anyone who wants to make money ... need to brush up on those dining skills in preparation for those ... -register online at web.mit.edu/womensweek/. Brought to You By: Panhellenic

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... Academy for elementary school. I got better at English and learned how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the MIT experience unique. I've finally decided to get out my DSLR that ... do this for two reasons: One, I want to show you that, despite our ... seems and sounds so shiny and new, to the point where I couldn't possibly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school ... , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  writing process was like for me since I get a lot of questions as to how to ... August. I started by writing down everything I wanted MIT to know about me ... to visit the Philippines for two weeks to give the books to the schools

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  to scripts, a free hosting service operated by MIT students for the MIT ... (sometimes) funny. A few months ago I decided I wanted to make one for the ... ;   Suddenly remember I'm supposed to get into Hogwarts — мιтα

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... out there. For those who are awaiting news on Pi Day, I hope this will be a fun diversion for you as you wait. And for those who are not

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines ... .  I’ve come to love weightlifting, for the most basic reasons: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who ... 't get into another school (it shall remain un-named as well for these ... place for me to be, I kept thinking to myself. But, in the long run, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011