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• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  for snowball fights, snowmen, snow angels, and writing giant messages ... the money which is available for research is through the UROP program, which requires that you find a faculty sponsor for your project -- and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven ... MIT? I'm a pretty avid classical violinist with a passion for chamber

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  for a little while and say hi. Unfortunately, as the name implies, no ... ...well...anyone else parties. In other news, Dave thanked me for answering his question, saying, "Thanks for the info; although it may seem strange to care about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  # of AP's for admitted kids was 5 or 6 (that's total for all 4 years of ... brought nothing else to the table. And that's not who we're looking for at ... which I say: guys, I work for MIT! If a kid doesn't want to be taking a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  component of sphingomyelin, is part of the cellular lipid bilayer. For ... connectivity. 5. a) Draw Newman projects for the six energy maxima and minima for 2- methylhexane, sighting along the C2-C3 bond. b) Calculate the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  festivities. Definitely check those pages out for some awesome pyrotechnic ... to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... writer for Xena: Warrior Princess and that he could maybe get me that Bruce

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note="academic planner for MIT students to plan out their degrees, test out paths for

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  sophomore year, halfway through MIT. I’m choosing classes for next semester ... for quicker or easier paths.  So anyway, I think a smart idea would be ... ="" align="alignnone" width="267"] for reference, a lemming[/caption] My

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  paid around $450 for it, which is like way less than what I would have paid for a new computer with comparable specs. Also it ran Windows 7 ... coding pset at MIT and every pset afterwards for three years. It ran my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... , until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers ... . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... telling you aboutThe MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  … special surprise… for us that day. I will say nothing more.” I was very ... the first kind of “special surprise” I was hoping for. For context ... ."]multi-instrumentalist[/annotation]/educator known for basically being a modern-day Mozart. That is to say, he’s an

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track for a full recovery. Since then, I have been pitching in where I can

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  something sturdy enough for my laptop and all of its accessories–and something ... ’s the perfect size for my A5 notebook, and that one’s big enough to hold ... hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  remembered the things i liked to do at school remembered the love for games ... school where my boyfriend goes was very sad for a while cried many tears realized that the big school i got into would actually be better for me, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  material enough i can’t wait for the semester to end this course is too damn ... an unending chapter You cry for you've kept your eyelids open for too long looking for the light at the end of the tunnel   water you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  like the eponymous song, So Much (for) Stardust[/caption] [caption id ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public ... fracturing a setting sky so much for stardust warm street lamps long bike

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  roundtrip for me, so I wandered around British streets solo. It got a bit ... noticed this after getting called out for never using my knife at dinner ... text on a scrap piece of paper while waiting for a massively delayed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... conceptually. This may be for a few reasons. One may be that [annotation note

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022