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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  wait your turn or become a certain age before you can do anything, like ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  chief-of-staff at a startup in the Web 3.0 space, so I agreed to do some ... rent). I'm a house manager for WILG, which means I assign chores and do ... dream for a while to do a graphic novel as well, but given all of my other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  resonated with me and something I could see myself doing that is at least a ... 't going to go pre-med or do a PhD, bioengineering felt more useful as a ... --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which ... if you are doing a Course 6 or Course 8 UROP or if you are a freshman ... Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... . It feels like I'm a quitter. I'm not doing any of the extracurriculars

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... staples of daily life. The French students do the same in their own language

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... the summer, MIT students do a whole host of interesting things with ... sarcasm). In order to do these things you will have a job. With luck, it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  . Toy   Q: What do you like most about MIT? A: One of the things I ... In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually ...  Burchard Scholars dinners and we got to talking about INSPIRE, a cool project that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  It's July again, which means that: I started a co-op Stardew ... the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards & photosynthesize & float on a river & not think about emails

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... was still called TheFacebook - this was a better time, a time when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty list of summer activities. Like last year, things are still a bit ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... and let us perceive you, as though you were a shy yet wondrous deep sea ... UROP, or become a mentor for Project Manus, or learn a cool new thing in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  worry and ask myself: What do I want to do with my life? It's not a matter ... out, when in reality you do have a genuine passion for computer science ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are ... action items for myself, or retroactive descriptions for what i did for a block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  my activity coefficient away. He explained to us that this was a stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned ... students communicate what MIT is actually like. We do this by hiring students who have good judgment, a compelling voice and perspective, and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since ... MIT on a moment's notice and still do an okay job. And people laughed at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  application. If you do not have a full set of scores, your application will still be reviewed in a holistic manner. Our office will be closed ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  CPW events going on that you won't have a shortage of things to do ... make sure that you use a name or alibi that you're ok with being public. Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026