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• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post ... It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  imaginary, then the dots in the applet will be blue." (Draws dots in orange on ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to destroy the Old Man on the Mountain, effectively ruining the state's tourist

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8 ... breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  on that later), so I need to get some experiments finished up before ... across the street to the new Brain and Cognitive Sciences building, which is scheduled to open within the next month. My lab, as noted above, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  on campus. 3. Photo Gallery Now it's time to appreciate some of the ... seen her out and about on the blogs. We had run into each other before ... the arts. At one point, I mentioned I had always wanted to try

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  used to - such as on the day before I started working at RIKEN, when I ... to. The cherry on top of this weird, informally-dressed sundae is that ... friend. She had to give the phone to a random Japanese guy on the street

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  think the reality of the situation is that I won't be able to hold on to ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... motivation to start working on that square dancing blog post i keep promising i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... , convincing new students to join the crew team, leading FPOPs and orientation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  every year for a few years, I suppose it's supposed to signify the first ... to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about making posts, and to meet the new and senior bloggers. This year

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  're not herded into giant classes like so many moo cows. According to the ... perspectives on the lecture material. (And, ahem, graduate students are more ... graduate school, so I wanted to pick his brain about applications and the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  in 2 years, in order to reduce the financial hardship on his family. As ... to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the ... prominent company is very impressive and Mr. Dweck has the qualifications to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to ... to summarize life at MIT than the segway jousting at the end. *This

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... the National Braille Press, running the Ugliest Man on Campus charity ... semester, ... A large part of the requirements to join, and to continue as a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  has led to some vaguely unfortunate situations, such as taking the ... applies to the lab, too.) "Just do it" was difficult to implement during ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  /Thursday period. It was really cool to be on the other side of things during these ... , and she's coming in on the 1st to do an event with us! It's really ... I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  I'm away from campus at IMO, but I heard from my colleagues on the ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  giving any definitive advice on how to define the future, so I’ll end this ... to the linearity of time, hence this preoccupation with the future: the ... future outcomes would be incredibly tedious. This reverence we give to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to ... was in the Mathcounts program and on the school math team, and he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... . As a result, I don't have any pictures to post. =( Anyway, the ... yelled out songs that they wanted to hear. Some of the songs that they

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006