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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  , and I strongly encourage you to go through it if you are considering a ... must complete a minor in order to go to medical school -- these links are just to provide a more comprehensive look at what MIT has to offer. Here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  taught. In order to get a project off the pipe, you need to make a neckline ... decided to make a snowman. This is the end result: I know what you ... ’ll just make a little mini snowman. However, after adding arms came to the

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 ... summers to date. Computer security is something they touch upon a little bit ... year. The internship was pitched to me as a better class than any school

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Approaching Adulthood In which I spell out my semester to hopefully feel less overwhelmed

  

  better time to whip up a blog about the beginning of classes? The lighting was a bit sloppy, but I do need to get back in the habit of vlogging ... courses, but I've also committed to a bunch of cool side projects/UROPs that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  some luck based on your circumstances. It's going to be a bit harder if ... distance to your high school, DING DING DING! You're in a prime position to ... passage to sit in a classroom after school with a dozen other kids and watch

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a ... somewhat good experience talking to my counselor. i first mentioned this in a blog post a couple months back, but yeah, i’ve been talking to the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  incredibly hectic. I tried to make a list of events I wanted to go to and ... stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... -annual gaming convention to celebrate Twitch as a live streaming platform! Content

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... accepted to Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. She chose Harvard, partially due to a ... crippling student debt as a med student or to receive a high salary as a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... 's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax ... realizing it, these subtle flaws began to mess with my mind. When I took a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  particularly upset because she was the first one “to make it out”, and put a lot ... activities very sadly could not come to full fruition. But as a last ditch attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  a recent alum, I’d like to explore that a little further – and ... ? Was it the place that I understood it to be? My 1st choice? A place that ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  needed a uhaul to bring it all back (0:53). We were buying 140 cans of ... . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... . We sat for a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to stabilize it

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  called, "Preparing for College: What's a Maker To Do?" Its on Sunday at 3 ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog ... probably already know what Maker Faire is, but if you don't it's basically a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  want to make that my minor, with a major in management, but I'm going to ... , though -- freshmen who show initiative: you've got to make a little bit of ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  what I mean?) Bezel The 2006 beaver is supposed to look a little more ... 's holding a scroll to represent knowledge, and a globe to represent the way ... fundamentally the fact that we were the first class to have A/B/C/no record second

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  of contribution I'd need to make it a sustainable lifestyle. Knowing ... it feels a lot more possible to make real choices for my life. I have ... This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three ... be a unique one. Because the purpose I came here is to make friends ... numbers (scores/grades) to make its argument, which shows a woeful lack of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  have spoken to. Or make a contact list. Whatever will keep you organized ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... a Glee themed event, there was little opportunity to go wrong--until I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011