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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... 't going to come find you when you're struggling and ask you what's going on ... had discussed me at the grading session, I arranged to meet with him on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... in French libraries, trying to get used to the French keyboard... it ... read that right - until I could get mine fixed. It turned out to be quite

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: "I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  .Imagine a piece of paper, do cross-multiplication on your imaginary piece of ... . Rationale: when evaluating the most direct route to your goal, be it the ... -twisting parking maneuver, you don't hesitate to overshoot your target and then back

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on-site ... . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... hardbacks with pleasantly smooth covers, free tickets to the fancy Boston

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having ... immediately afterwards, I went home to Next House to pack my carry-on and leave ... another person enough to say "I can't do this on my own right now," and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths ... them into the fire and have to start over. Sometimes we get creative ... and reality. You have to see it with your own eyes to believe it. This

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  mind for you and your family at home and on the go. M.S. and PhD in ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... partners and scour their campuses for the most innovative student startups to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... stressful situations it took a while to understand how my body functioned

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... blogging life. Which is wild to me, conceptually. On the one hand, because I ... where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  their moments, but it's all in order to prepare you for your ultimate pass ... 250 C or when I want to sparge the water with helium to get out any ... magnetism are actually kind of the same thing, I started to get a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  't "real" adult enough to get the pitch on energy conservation (I was first ... to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... . When you get hungry, head to the Quincy Market (largest food hall in New

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  —MIT alumni gathering on campus to see old friends, reminisce about the good old days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... happy to find out that his legacy, of sorts, lives on because students

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  performed surgery on a pair of ferrets we had been studying - and I got to ... expertise to be very helpful (though hopefully I'll get there someday!), but I ... you can use your imagination to picture what it was like. Or better yet

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  your beliefs about the number 7.) I took this as a challenge to ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... and feeling full to the brim with celebratory joy, I started to get a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  to getting your first UROP that I unfortunately overlooked my first time around: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get ... . Having the chance to get that coveted position in the lab of your dreams

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  focuses is placed on teaching you to SPEAK, rather than just read ... tries to mimic real life as much as possible, and you're not asked to ... drills that you're supposed to be learning into the scenario itself, so you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through the process of teaching, you learn more about your stuff, and how others ... -generated censorship, or how people manipulate social media to suppress speech. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  plenty of room for you to tell us about any special circumstances regarding your school, community, or family, and any other information that you feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every