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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  example of an application: you would be able to rotate your phone on a call ... foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half ... my labmates and I rented a motorboat to go on Lake Como, which was less

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  easy to forget after a while. So, try to plan your schedule right. Make sure to take Intro Bio, Physics, and Chem during your freshman year and I ... semester of your freshman year. It's a lot of memorization but it's great to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a ... overconfident frosh deciding to take on too many commitments after having it easy ... 20 hours a week. To be clear, letting your hardware decide whether to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on ... of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  again."). This week, it's back to work. My new model just finished ... This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... (technically not during IAP) was the chance to celebrate New Year's Eve in London ... focuses on addressing congenital blindness in India; eventually he'd like to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  that we are spending time on things that don't matter. And that leads to ... assumptions made about MIT. Kanye's entire thinkpiece on MIT reads like, to ... relying on us young people to solve the situations that prior generations

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... only made me more excited to be on campus. My CPW weekend was off to a ... "Immigrant Song" to play on air. Remember, I have only touched upon a few of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  disclaimer lately on this blogs - and should really always be assumed to be ... active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... , I am on their mailing list, because they are awesome and frequently do

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... in your mailbox. And for those of you applying to MIT, I wish you the ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  needing to move on to the next thing, and the next thing, and only in that ... quality: it doesn't feel like I am "choosing" to do them or not based on how ... much I can take on just because I reallllllly want to do a particular

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... I was having a chat with my friend Matt O. '15 when we both agreed on ... How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ." On Monday I had an appointment with MIT Medical, to get the irregular ... me to an ear-nose-throat specialist. On Tuesday I called the nearest ... month. On Thursday I got around to doing an experiment I've always wanted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  workshops on how to use every inch of the college application to communicate ... one long day later, we had one last night to explore New Haven with the ... Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  on the tape, adding labels to random objects, and eating lots of fruit ... extensive tour of rooms on [annotation note="For those who don't know us, we ... , late night talks, and going on adventures - come say hi at CPW!"]B1

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  if you like pizza (and salad (and salad on your pizza (and other carbs on your carbs))). You should read Ceri R. ‘16’s (much more timely ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded ... slave to my Google Calendar? I'm always running to the next place on my ... essays, be a shoulder to lean on, be passionate about something, be curious

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  to defriend me on facebook after I posted a TextFromLastNight (about ... face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010