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• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  exciting events also presented by MIT Society of Women Engineers: The MIT SWE ... the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  pharmacology of synaptic transmission). But I got outside and the wind was ... to even write either one of these because I have no idea if my ... someone who perhaps is one of the kitchen slobs) is that if you want

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  that pushed against the stereotypes of a fandom mainly dominated by ... I usually reserve these kinds of posts for life-changing classes, the kinds of classes that let me discover things about myself and about the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  organized by the Office of Minority Education']MC^2 conference ... earlier return in case of limited flight availability or other extenuating circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... that I now have spent 1/15th of my [annotation note="we get $300 of print

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

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  The land of 85% humidity, cheap food, and scooters that can ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the ... . booyah!). And yet, now it's all over. I've completed all of my science

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  (Title above and song below inspired by lyrics from Avenue Q's "What ... ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... ), but I should mention this option just in case. Most grads (I think) of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  of the hours of my life spent researching obscure languages, sorting by ... Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  This entry is kind of inspired by an entry that Anthony wrote. Yes, I realize that he wrote it a month ago. I've been kind of lame about reading ... quality of my blogging has gone downhill as time has passed. When I first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• 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…

  

  goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super

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

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn ... bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  dancing a lot. I enrolled in an online class taught by one of my favorite ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... friends, but everything was worth it; Mocha Show was one of the most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i walk through campus and say stuff i cannot vlog to save my life

  

  around MIT and take a video of myself staying stuff I guess. I’m surprised there aren’t more of these kinds of videos floating around online; I thought there’d be more. So one of my jobs is being a tour guide for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  bottom of every blog entry. By clicking this link, you may choose to publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends ... who might otherwise never have seen it. I hope all of you found this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  inconvinient, how do you think? A MacGregor room is eight feet by fifteen feet. I ... asked, Is it bad if we can't understand what most of this actually ... lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  liberated from solid food for the rest of my life by an errant puck. Yes, we ... DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  being one of those people pardoned by Clinton during the last 20 minutes ... of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... Sam imitators and giant turkeys and enter a raffle to win a replica of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005