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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... you get very used to working together and helping other people think ... has helped a little. Aditya is right, it's hard to get straight answers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  have to put on your gear, get on rope, ascend, change over to using your repelling gear, repel, change over to your ascending gear again, and get off ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many ... ’ve spent your whole life being told to try new things and find what you like

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Arizona doesn’t have those things, it just takes a lot longer to get there ... department that tends to get lumped together with the life sciences, but that ... in one way or another, and I’m excited to hit the ground running to get

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  up at your door, you get to go hunting for your stuff in China. You get ... if you're going to do all this stuff on the street you also have to ... . Of course, there are some accidents… and then you get to see citizens

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option. You figure that the world is over and that you're going to fail out ... instead of your TAs and professors (whose job it is to help you, and whose ... an exam.) However, you should know that your peers are usually happy to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  genuine interest in your studies and hard work will enable you to get ... found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school ... classical mechanics, and even if I somehow figured out how to get around my ... I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... , they still need to fill out some forms for your app (school profiles and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if ... nonzero energy trying to get on Myspace at school. Second, the terrifying popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  : it's actually possible to get full credit on something at MIT. Even if ... semester would get really busy once I decided to take on one full-time UROP ... get the post up, but didn't get around to asking my senior lab manager

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  you have created. You do not need to send in your research poster ... fair and we don't get to present it or anything until late January ... be reviewed in full with your entire application. To answer your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  month. You all need to decide where you’re going to college next year ... best to make this decision post-CPW when you've formed your own opinions ... enough to sway me 5. AND we get them for free when we declare. Course 7

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  's fantastically loud - the kind of stuff that gets your adrenaline pumping. It's not hard to get caught up in this experience and miss the whole takeoff. I ... chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... Frantz. (Luckily, there are more nights of this performance, so I may still get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the ... talking to each other because you’re too focused on the words flying between ... yours and never wanting to let go. And tracing the lines that seem to so

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... . Sometimes, your energy is spent, and you need to be helped back to your feet or propped up. Your friends take care of you when you need them to, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... first). I was lucky to get the opportunity to be here. And while luck may ... time here, looking down on all the stairs that I climbed to get to where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024