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• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , I still have to be back latest at home around 9 or 10. In college, you ... for literally 5 minutes to go get something. Fortunately, I recovered ... the thief didn't have time to get a new lock for it so I just walked it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock Dheera Venkatraman, a crafty MIT student, has just completed the latest iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  , I can't have that now, better get dressed and cycle down to Sainsbury ... CRAZY amount of work I'm going to get done tomorrow. 10:00pm Snack And TV ... Samurai Champloo. 12:00am Sleep Need my beauty sleep to get up at 8 for the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... and get lunch at a coffee shop. I’d be able to study there too!   ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... different topics and latest in scientific research. I should go to more of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  interesting response to me, because I get it. I usually respond to this ... I sit down to put it [annotation note="paper? Google docs? I’ll just ... thoughts to myself. I’d get lost in my thoughts on teaching and math, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the ... to try and fail. It did get frustrating at times, but overall, I still

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different ... the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... their songs aren't summery enough to make the list. When PB's latest album ... reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  its methods, as real science is supposed to be. It was also created from ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  , I have to get at least 6 hours of sleep the night before. If I get 5 or fewer hours of sleep, I have to get 7+ hours the next night. I have to wake up before 8:00AM at the latest, or else I am significantly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two ... . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  important deadlines approach, everyone hops in to get the task done. Also ... , it’s a really good fit. I think the best way to get a sense of what ... chocolate, but once you start getting to really vague concepts like "benefit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the ... item. I was determined not to use Google Translate, in part because my ... talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  “menace to society.” As I googled Amaud Arbery’s name I almost threw my ... SICK AND TIRED I AM SO DONE WITH GOOGLING THESE NAMES! I DON’T WANT TO ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... desperate to get some numerical data, so I attributed these disappointing ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023