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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new place. If you're considering a career in academia, you probably ought to ... should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A ... one that asks applicants to describe a situation/project/idea in which ... problematic for us. In this example, having experience does not work to your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two ... -minute break where I got to click on a bunch of buttons. On the last page

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... , or 20, or maybe 10.  And the best way to know if you're interested in a ... have trouble with those last two).  You're spending $55K a year to be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to ... helpful to be able to practice handling stressful situations in a controlled

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul ... way back to the States near the end of week 3 after a few days in Japan ... computer in, wrote a few notes on a post-it, and sent me off.[3] Adding to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  single chip in your computer (unless you spilled a bag of Doritos or ... brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  blocked off due to construction) is Building 76 a new building in ... stay sufficiently awake during class to click a response in when the ... complete delivery of rings to happen a few months later, usually in April

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  WVIEYqisFLW6q1vbJXBs And finally, here’s a reminder to fill out your FUN form ... This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of ... year olds, expected to become experts in a wide variety of areas often ... be held standing in a hallway, or even turn out to include a bunch of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... seems to have taken a rather enthusiastic interest in mentoring the course ... , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... initially really hesitant and afraid to live in the house, it ended up being a ... Fest, where we bring in a popular artist to come and perform for our school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get ... things, then all get in a giant tub together. The water is scaldingly hot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  get students thinking at their seats. They responded by adding a few ... sometimes hard to learn from the smarter people in the group, who ignored TEAL ... MIT weighed in, my TA and several essay assignments encouraged me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit ... related. CPW just happens to be a good time to get a head start on getting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  just a short walk from the Arlington stop. Just as we’re getting onto ... ’s currently at said Hatch Shell and tells me in not-so-many words to get there ... line to get in. Ruh roh. But no worries, this entry would not be as

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010