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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they ... with the Greek Griller - free bbq for everyone, and you can go around and ... Stranger to the Rain is one of my favorite songs to sing ever, but on top of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants ... approaching. For admissions officers, there are many, many decisions to be made ... time in four months, I'll get to see my family. I'm holding on to that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  (involving threats of physical violence to black students on campus), incidents ... , but they called for multicultural spaces, offices dedicated to minority ... had already been met here or did not apply to MIT. For example, we have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... I went to station 8, which was the station for normal chemical ... on their website. See for yourself. BWAAAAA!! And yeah, graduation was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... . Your freshman fall is on PNR for a reason: to give you the chance to ... grinding and studying for classes, you'll have a lot of free time to figure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  that charge, my friends and I were able to score free tickets to the New ... to enter the other eye. There are two common systems for doing this ... walked around the area trying to find a Starbucks, and for the first time

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it ... for the rest of the day; I didn’t have much to do. For dinner, I eat ... heading to Kresge for an improv workshop with Roadkill Buffet, MIT’s improv

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on ... . AOL Radio is on the background, tuned to the Top 40 station. The desk ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  .  Apparently the UA Committee funds travel grants for MIT students to attend conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... full of thoughts on how to iron out the next several chapters, how would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  to embark on a bit of an adventure, perhaps the biggest journey I ... Limited will take me to Chicago, arriving at 10:12 AM CST on January 4th ... me to San Francisco, arriving at 5 PM PST on January 6th, by way of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  enough to sway me 5. AND we get them for free when we declare. Course 7 ... ’s the ballot. Feel free to add your comments and/or lobby for your choice ... on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any ... 'm actually going to be an associate advisor for 2.A35, Biomimetic Principles ... 'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  about? ). I've been trying hard to work on it every free minute I have ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear ... both. I’m still trying to find out where I stand on that blurry line ... MIT had to offer. So I was totally unprepared for how it actually

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes ... seems to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Back in Framingham, for

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... majors. On the other hand, if you don't have very much AP credit to begin ... 're worrying about picking their kids up from school and how to buy a house on a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  it was time to start on that palm tree that I swore up and down to ... discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more ... through for me again- so I rented a UHaul, made an adventurous trip to Home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  ’m planning on a video blog for next time (try to contain your excitement). Post ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To ... -factor crosses help you map genes relative to each other. On this particular day

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  . After that I went to a session on Interviewing Techniques, which is useful ... , and more free food. The tours give you a chance to see what the dorms ... personalities, because you're supposed to figure it all out on your own. It's all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006