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  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I ... physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  back inside for a home-cooked meal, seems so long ago. In reality, it has ... completely until you’re here in a dorm, in a town you’ve only been to during ... . At a school like MIT, people are from around the globe, so I know I am

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D animation program) when I had free time back in high school. For me it was a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of things, which has manifested itself in... A List of Ways MIT is Like ... 't know who made that gif (which is the inside of a room in Simmons Dorm, by

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a ... at 10. We got out like half an hour early so I just sat on a random ... interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced ... credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Haha I literally just finished and published a post a few minutes ago ... Family Weekend. I had a 6.01 pset due Sunday night, the last part of a 6.01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... reveals a side of Mathematics that is gorgeous in itself. No application is ... with a fervor of a child who has just learned to read. I am excited

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... will showcase things they've made. A tremendous number of individuals ... : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  and their airplanes stuffed into a single Cessna hangar. There's the same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  first steps on MIT domain as a prefrosh, I actually spent a lot more time ... 're a brand new man, and the brand new you is confident, composed, and ... already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I've been using since Interphase to make my life a little bit easier

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  : “Bless you. You know, I’m interested. What does a typical MIT frosh* even ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia ... the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During ... wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... ? These people couldn't pick a better place for that? My friend Spencer ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  's already going long on the overall process. Early one morning, I saw a ... School of Mathematics, which looks to be a rigorous afterschool program ... past students of RSM are now studying. I've never been in a program

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011