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• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I ... handout. Then the professor writes on the blackboard during class, none of ... for every lecture, all with different amounts of material. On top of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last ... used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test ... , fewer classes allow equation sheets, so I started writing it on my hand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  . The description of the game on our website is... "After tens of ... , consists of a wide variety of techniques: joint locks, submission holds ... strength, but rather on flexible response and the use of an attacker's own

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to ... they went all out on an arrangement of The Imperial March for $300. They

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  blurbs from ea. of them on the MIT residence website and assume there ... . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful ... of matching up you up with a host based on your personalities. (I say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art ... expanded our wall of murals by 26 feet, added around 15 new murals, and 10 new animations, and had a end-of-semester showcase! This semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  (I can file an entry on Yoga under "Academic" right?) Today I received this email from the Committee on Academic Performance (links are all ... successful completion of the swim test (or beginning swimming class) and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  across all of EECS, it should have a strong hands-on experience, and it ... the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  take advantage of MIT’s outdoor activities (ESPECIALLY if you’re on ... student budget i.e. free most of the time) I plan on spending more of my weekends going on fun excursions and trying new activities! [All photo

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  new story, Jenkins says. [read the rest of the interview] [read a ... professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most ... profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  . You would think someone who writes stuff read by plenty of people on the ... technique was tricky, and I still need to work on it now. Generally, we ... knee (like a fist-worth of spacing, and your other hand goes on your

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  the guidance of Daniel Kohane, M.D./Ph.D. He is currently working on the ... integral part of my education at MIT. Currently, I study and work on a number ... in Langer Lab on a bone tissue engineering project in November of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  author Alexandra Horowitz goes on urban walks with people of [annotation ... think it’s also a great set of steps for how to socialize and discover new ... peculiar fascination for Slovenia, and now you’re meeting tons of new people

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  week of November. 6 others on the MIT Figure Skating team are also going ... other summer interns at Microsoft NERD. To top it off, the new season of ... tinkering with React.js and making a new website.   [caption id

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website ... other schools on your list. It's an unfortunate fact of life that, in all ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  Newbury Street and spend a not-good amount of money on new clothes, and then ... If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  areas of knowledge and new lab techniques, while finding the potential of ... search for protein interactions based on the mass of the interactors. This ... investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  air conditioning or Wi-Fi. But I understood. On the streets of New York ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  , and the heaviness of what's been going on in it. Feelings of scrambling ... spent so much of these last two years focusing on jobs, and people, and ... SciShow people (and one of my most inspiring mentors/friends on her

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information for your interviewer (Educational Counselor) on the MyMIT website. [If ... update on what you might want to be thinking about: For Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006