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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  classes, when I woke up extra early to make sure I wasn’t late. I remember ... , I've managed to make plenty of mistakes - but at the same time, each ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  can’t emphasize that enough!! Another comment I’d like to make is about ... found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure. And if you are like me, this makes you sad, because you were one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  shibboleth. when you go to turn your rat around today, please, take a moment, just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little ... do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  to reddish something-or-other. You can't even make out the sidewalks ... activity with nowhere to go. Sure, so maybe you're facing different math ... routine is what makes the darn thing so compelling to begin with! Oh, boy

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  and adding your own signature to the bottom and carefully putting the ... to study for the 8.022 exam when your notes are neat and have pretty ... day would be fairly dull to keep up, at least in my opinion. It's really

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... it again, and I am determined to make it [annotation note="what do I ... give to your job, and how much will you want to? I wonder if I’ve failed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to ... uncommon to major in something else; medical schools don't care what your ... . It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  are going to be hard, but if ALL of your classes make you miserable ... a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything! Really taught me how to actually make most anything. Expect to spend a lot

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  . Make sure you're not pushing your physical limits. I felt so energized ... Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  willing to bet this is what happened in your case. Transfer Student had a ... emailing the Admissions Office; I will try to follow up on your email ... supplement this week. You don't have to send in any award certificates for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  the option to stay in your temp dorm if you want, although you shouldn't succumb to laziness and not explore just because you sorta like your temp ... at least to use the i3 videos to narrow it down to your top three or

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  plates over to the MGH DNA Sequencing Center, making chemicals, messing ... blogs since school ended. To be honest, this summer had been wonderful ... to upload everything yet =/). The Taiwan Phase: May 24, 2008 to July 2

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  to make uncontrollable noises and movement. For a career as speech ... , when do you add salt to your okra? At the beginning? Or the end? (student ... and make their way out to easily the most beautiful scene of the film

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  ’d be taking three technicals in fall; didn’t it make sense to take the ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and ... technicals were the only place to carve time out of my schedule. I learned the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -quadruple-booking-yourself-and-forgetting-about-all-four-things hard Because you’re-too-busy-trying-to-prevent-your ... just finished sophomore year, confused about What We Want To Do With Our Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... opportunities at various top universities, institutions, and companies around the ... , I have friends going to India, Japan, China, France, and Spain. As

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  , it really doesn't take much to make me laugh hysterically). On the off ... AM to complete your evaluations. And, I know you?ll be pleased to hear ... way to contribute to curricular improvements at MIT. Your constructive

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get ... mouse tissue, make DNA from it (called cDNA), and then deliver the DNA to ... specific lab, it's in your best interest to speak to the professor directly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  , whereas if I wanted to make something nice, I'd need to tediously plan it ... blank canvas without any idea of what stroke you're going to do next. It ... of commitment, this unsureness in my decisions, that led me to not make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021