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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma ... ." - Found on the internet! And some others! Like, "Dead chemists are not ... , uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they ... the Materials Science FPOP known as DMSE, as well as continue to help with all the cool things going on in the East Campus Courtyard! There are

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the VA Had a few other problems I’d rather not share here Struggled ... . Something I wish someone would have told me from the start is: you can’t even ... advisor (Professor Voldman is the 🐐) Student Support Services (S3) MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has ... is Tuesday 3. Tomorrow is Wednesday 4. And Thursday comes afterwards ... you why in the following video, you goobers! Come see Simmons! Come

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  me realize that the idea of pursuing an PhD or Master's in media is not ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... would understand what you meant. careers I think this is the part where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not ... procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... ] pset due Monday and generally doing basically anything that was not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  This is a season of stress. The release of Early Action decisions ... the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying ... , who is one of the most amazing singers I have ever come across.) At 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  ; Basically, the drug Crixivan ® is used to combat HIV, but it is a very ... strictly on bench-top chemical reactions, the Sinskey Lab is using bacteria ... plasmid, or small circular piece of DNA, into the bacteria, Ana is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  When was MIT founded?

  Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked!
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  . There aren’t usually language requirements, so all you need is the offline ... ’s cool: The bad thing about having an MIT email address is I get hundreds ... actually trying to reach me. The good thing is every so often one of those

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  .005 my sophomore spring, and 2.003 and 2.086 my junior fall. The issue is ... thoughts for this section? Absolutely not. No ragerts, as someone on the ... summer, unclear, the world is coming so fast edit “Another Taste this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into ... . Summer in Boston is miserable in some ways but it is beautiful. The air is ... back into Random.     As a bonus, here is the melody and vista of a fire

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  . The house was without electricity and running water for quite a while ... weekend for the Alumni Leadership Conference, but the storm seemed to have ... in a house with no utilities, sweltering in the humidity, standing in

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  to vibe with them is the reason my semester was even remotely tolerable ... each of the first two psets so i didn't stress about it until i saw my grade for the second midterm. cue instant panic and regret mode...and let

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  everywhere, as if you're looking at the stars but against a city, not a sky. It ... with sorrow and enlightenment and the realization that there is so much ... over the last week. I have so much to say and so much to remember, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  with it is the audio ads (which will occasionally play between songs ... more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  complicated: Heh. This one is sold at the end of every fall and spring by ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... I midterm. Turns out Adam is from Beaver, PA and--yes, before you ask

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  followed his instructions for the rest of the summer, not knowing exactly ... of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , who is just 41 years old, shares the prize with fellow researchers Saul ... of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."  He is the ... Arthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, the Shaw Prize, the Einstein Medal, and is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch is one of my favorite events at MIT. It is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014