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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at 7 am... but it was a pretty boring month of my life. We tried to ... to be A TON OF WORK (ie, I'm working on the weekends) which can be ... , I have been making time to do some awesome things at night :) I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  questions, and try not to make really dumb[annotation note="A neg is when you ... course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society ... applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... , Boris Alexeev proved a theorem related to the theory of automata, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  BUT ultimately led to a lot of frustration because that's when I got a ... (I had submitted my 2 weeks notice 2 weeks prior).  I had a few days to ... 's nothing quite like a week long trip to Disney World with no work hanging

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... and a left, a front and a back. This has to do with the fact that animals tend to travel in a certain direction, facing forward when doing so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  away, I really want to make sure I get an internship with a company I ... needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... . Transportation planning is a mix of civil engineering and urban planning, much to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... need to be a music major for this to be considered (most people who ... most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... and ship yourself to the college of your dreams. Writing this would make ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  how to make nanoparticle without wasting a bunch of expensive particle ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... need a PhD, how often will I have to move, are there any jobs available

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . Albert's always there to help me if I get confused or hit a dead end. I ... Morgan (the professor in charge of our lab), it's my job to prepare a short ... interesting -- if I woke up one day and wanted to start a totally new project

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  running the job search, asked all of the applicants for the role to make a ... hands with a rueful expression and said to me "That’s like asking me to ... .']totalizing,[/annotation] a topic to actually write about in a comprehensive way in a single

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  (universities, etc) -- some have a particular amount of time allotted to X ... example, and a zillion astronomers who want to collect data with it; during ... idea what would make a good project for a couple of hours of telescope

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... , right? It would be just as simple to tell a story about any other number of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  . Another thing Conner 3 did this summer was make a homemade papier ... asleep on a kitchen table and woke up to find my entire body wrapped in ... either. Darn. I'll try to have a more detailed entry up tomorrow featuring

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  extracurricular opportunities, a brief four-year respite on my journey to become a ... moved to B entry sophomore fall because I realized that I needed a more ... championships. I want another year with B entry. I want to make Post-it art on our

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... campus in fall, so we're in the middle of hunting for a place to live in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... application to Cataldo EMS, a private ambulance service for which many MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit ... studying in college in a big country, with my graduating friends flying to ... only have a limited amount of emotions to give out, and a lot of it was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  because I like having a bit more flexibility, but when we do make things in ... about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... to sit down again and have a discussion. We also have to have semi

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  making a new discovery to be very "adrenaline-inducing." Though the day-to ... obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique ... mouse tissue, make DNA from it (called cDNA), and then deliver the DNA to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006