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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end ... for two hours, while they explained everything from their choice of ... .670) for two weeks of IAP. The class meets every day from 9 AM - 4 PM and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  business is not an option for most people, though it is a convenient way to ... job and being out of the loop for a few years can really reduce your ... just to have you leave a few years later. I know how important it is for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a ... Sadoway comes highly regarded for his engaging lecture style. This course ... Physics is used extensively and allows for assignments to be due at various

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... going to stay with them at their hotel that night and, for some reason ... , and MIT Medical hands them out for free. So, the five of us all went up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select ... 'll for the most part treat them as any other application, but we will ask a ... them. No one knows this more than senior associate dean for students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  for the blog." If you know Ellen, you know the best thing to do is to do ... . Academics come first for MIT-bound scholar Jeremy McGee began to show signs ... take off and land. It's what I love to do, and it's what I want to do for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite ... stop was that I was looking for, because I was sort of lost -- he almost ... the class, but only by a few points (thank heavens for pass/no record

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ... " column--and guess who he asked for scientific advice. Seeking an expert ... wheel for locomotion, either. We could, for instance, imagine a three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again ... for the conflict in Israel and Palestine? US troops are fighting in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  advertisement for MIT Spokes that caught my interest. Every year, Spokes gathers a ... coast, and that I wanted to do it over IAP. Why wait? Intro [Kano] As for ... Science and Technology Initiatives) runs global travel experiences for MIT

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  Chuck, I helped design underwater robots for students at a university in ... discount on the Boston bike share system, called BlueBikes. For $50 a year ... is an absolute STEAL for when the T doesn't go where you need and you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  songs. Ready for It will never not be a banger opening song. I also ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were incredible but also empowering for Taylor, which is really cool. In poetry

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... someone who actually knows you. for the same reasons, I’m also more cautious ... ’t intend this post as advice for younger students, but I do want to put out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... week, except for weeks when there's an exam, so there's around ten in all ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... I came up with bucket list items for my first metal fest: crowdsurf ... , a wave of hand-horn symbols rose from the crowd. I understood for the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  I visited Japan on exchange for the first time. he lived right next to ... lifetime supply of MIT merch for everyone. since my host sister had visited ... family had been completely normal. I felt immense guilt for not checking in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  . Before I start I want to thank Cami Meija for hosting my guest post! This ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety ... grade overall was good for me, as I found a new place where I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fall term"]FPOP[/annotation] for Course 10, ChemE, where they sent us ... fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... lives fighting for endangered species protection. I got the sense that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021