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• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  unabashedly. This is the person I was meant to be. And MIT gave me that chance ... again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... . Being back home has made me realize that the person I am now is the person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue ... friends are doing ok. We are all shaken to the core and disillusioned by ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... , I get to haul a soggy pile of clothes from the washer to a dryer on ... cycle is 60 minutes. I repeat the process. The timer goes off, and I get

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  says he is convinced, depend on "exposure to the unusual, to the diverse ... Times has seen fit to devote more inches to the topic of gifted education ... the world to supply a spotlight. [Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... in a way that was outside classes really drew me to the program. Why ... are. Most of the time we don't get to play with my childhood toys

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... - “Absence satisfactorily explained to and excused by the dean for ... charge of the subject will be notified when an O is changed to an OX. An OX

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Well we haven’t actually left the country yet, in many ways Detroit faces ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... also in the way we are learning. The IHP Cities in the 21st Century

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For ... place to discuss whatever is on your mind. ... decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... have to deal with in your whole life. Imagine that it is summer and you’re ... tomorrow. It is 9:45pm by the time you head home. No one in there right mind

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  to talk personally with the professors. I was so excited by everyone ... get caught pretty quickly, but other times, the chase can last a good ... ! On a final note, she is getting a minor in French and loves the subject

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  If you're applying early (to MIT or elsewhere), you're probably nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  to do something. This doesn't mean that the reason is always meaningful ... applying the filter just to socially signal is wrong. We signal all the time ... virtue, however, is a contradiction: you're selfishly claiming to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... a little annoying, but there's no way for the instructor to tailor

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  , I get to explore the city with friends, go to the farmers market, hike ... holiday justice. From the firemen's ball to the spectacular fireworks by ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  MIT.  The honest answer?  THE PEOPLE!  So I'm going to tell you stories about some of the awesome and amazing people that I went to school with ... Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where they keep the licences. Installing MATLAB on your personal computer ... guess at the end of the day what to take away from this is just the usual

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... class that I somewhat have to take. It is only offered in the fall and is ... as a tool for topology, it is interesting to look deeper into the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  to ask? Comment your questions in. (By the way, I probably won't change ... responding to your questions from last entry, and the Burton 1 Cribs entry ... followed by red Favorite fabric softener: Bounce (not to be confused with the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  've also developed nanoparticles to deliver the siRNA (although this is very ... . My specific role in the project is to work with my postdoc to find ... you may know, legend says there is always a light on in the Green

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  on her way to classes: This, of course, is the wrong view of the ... much in the way of good professional sports teams - it's mostly the ... 's even more exciting when the team is winning. The night of the seventh

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007