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• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play ... square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if you'll get into MIT, they don't have any formal advice about navigating ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some

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

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see ... , that gives me 1.5 more days to learn everything. The good part? I think I ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  accustomed to all sorts of odd situations in lab, but it took a while to get ... , walk around with your Caucasian and African American friends and get ... -story Gundam that moves and blinks its eyes, and then go get your ears cleaned by

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... ; (Fun fact: if you air this grievance on Facebook, you will get a couple

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of ... . 4. Write letters to friends - I love getting mail from friends, and I ... me to learn how to do it. Apparently, it comes in handy when you're

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... -Piper said of her MIT experience: "The brief thumbnail sketch of getting here is, well, after high school I went to college, and I applied to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get ... were also applying. Knowing that I'd get to interact with awesome peers ... are. Most of the time we don't get to play with my childhood toys

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  each other—there's no expectation to—but you're friends, and so you ... myself, nor do i really get the whole christmas spirit thing. but it just ... performances. i had already forgotten the joy of listening to live music. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during ... wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  working, then you're not, and then you have new ideas on which to work, and ... , very fortunate that this is even a choice I get to make. Two: At MIT ... becomes pleasure, but often you have to grit your teeth for a long time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... get to hang out with these people who are much brighter than me and ... turning around the sun. When things get that small, weird stuff starts to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... software. Or getting pointers on how to commercialize research from someone ... company, but having one changes the type of company you’re able to start

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  useful to know off the top of your head when doing audio production; for ... problem sets, and while 6.864 was fun, I didn't get to actually implement ... In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  dorm to get some more people and to get stuff for facial features. We ... probably going to be around until the end of winter (CPW if you're lucky) so we'll all get to enjoy him for quite a while. So that was my yesterday

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  important aspect of your academic and social life. Sorry to draw upon Harry ... , you pay tuition to your home university, but room rent to the university ... to your major and how many people within your year in your major want

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  get roughly 5 hours to come up with a design pitch of a solution to one ... presents to the conference and we even get some people e-mailing us about ... exciting. Figure 12. My crappy photo of MITSO getting ready to record

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  of MIT to set up. I understand that a lot of people get a lot out of ... you decide to use your IAP to just exist, you feel like a stupid, weak ... I’ll get too anxious to continue. I have this problem a lot, where the

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  therapeutic nanoparticles have a hard time penetrating the layers to get to the ... essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body ... -generational bloggerfest. If you come back to this post in a week, you'll get to learn why

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015