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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on ... UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... is scheduled to open within the next month. My lab, as noted above, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  was AMAZINGLY inspirational, and columnist Dave Barry, who is always ... some ways is more of a textbook than a menu - covering every last detail ... Harvard Admissions Institute. The first day of NACAC is mostly social. Some

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... one year — the EARC is our league with the Ivies and a few others). I ... it is more cool that we entered everything. I love racing, because it

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  activities. In other words, Orientation is in full swing! This also means that REX is over already. MIT is so hardcore that they give you less than 3 ... there. Like I said- MIT is hardcore. Convocation was Monday afternoon (I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... requirement is more complicated than that, but we won't get distracted by that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... Maillard reaction. This is a non-enzymatic browning reaction which is usually ... , and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown

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

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to ... is the Assistant to Dean Marilee Jones, with the comment "Great story for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... 't know: that the executive at ABC who greenlighted to show is an MIT alumna

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  static recently, I know. This is because we've been working hard behind the ... that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... is that I read it immediately following our pre-selection meeting, in

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  Finals season is well and officially upon us, but I couldn’t help but ... , right?” Which is really funny only because it accomplished his intention ... reflection. All the material is there- how you feel about your life, what

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that ... eleven, not until you're almost twelve. That's the way it is.” working on ... about how he is exploring filmmaking because his finance internship made

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... arbitrary, and a two-month period before you can date freshmen kind of is, but the reasoning behind it is crucial. as Nisha mentioned in her blog

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation ... advisor is super chill, so he pretty much said “Cool, go ahead.” He let me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times ... database. If the database is public, I'm done with this step! If it's private, I generally send a request to the owner to use it. If the data is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  extracurriculars is hard. Don't take five classes unless you a) know you can handle ... pursue in the future! 3. I really, really like 6.08. 6.08 is my Intro to ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this ... ’t scary. It is fascinating [editor's note: I've even declared a Brain and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an uncharacteristic amount of work. So what ended up looking like an average semester is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  .091 = “three-oh-nine-one" There is no apparent logic to this. But when a group ... -oh-twelve” actually more efficient than “seven-oh-one-two”?   3. East Campus is ... /minors I am graduating with, and that is a learning moment for all the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  changes between high school and college is just the amount of freedom you have. I remember thinking in high school, “I hope the MIT curfew is not too early……… (there is no curfew in college :P),” you can be anywhere at

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... existence. I need to interject here that this post is not about the issues of ... person using their own data for their own delight. What follows is the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016