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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... , which apparently means they're supposed to be happy with making peanuts

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  to be like that now. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re becoming worse ... has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your ... , if you’re writing something you want to be good, like an essay, write

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it ... of short stories called Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by one of my ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one ... early evenings throughout the Infinite Corridor as I head to different

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... department, has its own fMRI machine, and at MIT, there always needs to be at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  wants you Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you The ... homework.   marjorie Never be so kind You forget to be clever Never be so clever You forget to be kind The well-rounded student who isn

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  !. Actually, to be fair, these were also for Freshman Dinner (alluded to by ... ! Apples will be provided by your GRT on Friday, October 21. Entries are due ... . This year, we came up with this: Not to be confused. This actually did

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  optimization problems by Sunday.”[annotation note="to be fair, we do also read ... more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I ... it would be weird to use this platform to promote [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by ... uneven to not be slippery, despite my sneakers' tread being absolutely

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... it needs to be modified to "I don't judge, I just post pictures." [This entry was brought to you by the following quote: "I look forward to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to ... guesswork out of what's in each section by providing drop down menus with

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a ... Okay folks, here's what I have to do this weekend... 1. Write a blog ... . Write introduction to 10.28 advanced technical review for Monday 7. Work 4

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  out the best way to talk about icelandic volcanoes, Switzerland, Germany ... This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  hope about the ice cream half-expected the ice cream to be at the top of ... decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  adults who want to live vicariously through me, as if I'm being pursued by ... my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this ... easily study in my room, the space I specifically cultivated to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  company to watch a movie that person can be found just by walking into the ... for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... felt that our house never sleeps as someone always seems to be awake, no

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  semester, I was invited by a former professor to be the Undergraduate ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... thought we would, so I have to be careful this year to ensure that we don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared ... '''s, [annotation note ="In fact, I never hear it when being introduced to a fellow ... and I’m from Missouri.” All jokes aside, it’s weird for me to be

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022