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• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... , who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work with the genetics

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to ... shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that ... 's probably also difficult for you to think about the world beyond MIT (don

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the ... viscerally remember shaking out of fear as i walked up to the doors leading to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  for Early Action, and up to December test scores for Regular Action. Q ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... form), and if you are applying for the Match, check off that you are

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  ! After waking up at around 1 PM, I got out of bed and finally prepared for ... , more importantly, we talked. We talked for a while. We caught up from not ... Raise your hand if you love exams!  Is your hand up?  Yeah, neither

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  for getting lunch, catching up on email, or working on a p-set. I mostly ... career so far was simply planning my class schedule for this semester. For ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  the middle number greater than 0 (for example, 3-2-7). Other options are ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of ... recap of everything we’ve been up to this past year. Spoiler alert: it ... for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  circumstances I chose to put myself up for election, because I felt like I had ... this overwhelming feeling creeping up on me, this slow crescendo of ... impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my ... advocating for one side. I chose to do my video on MIT's closed campus policy ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBLKXmD7-bQ[/embed] 1. Scripting MISTAKE: Not scripting first. For the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  for what I do and don't like. I did end up buying something small and on ... enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe, everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  both are insanely accomplished, and the stuff they have done for the field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology ... whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  ) for the fall semester's FLX, or Field Leadership Exercise. Over the past ... where we met up with the AFROTC detachment from UMass Lowell. Hanscom already had a simulated forward operating base set up, much like a base that

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  soon as I got on my lunchbreak today was run back to EC for clean shoes and socks. Anyhow everyone was hoping for the drizzle to let up, including Matt McGann, who was up on the stage hosting the pre

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  about barbecue." "Hm." So, in order to make up for my lack of cordiality ... my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... up?), bathroom stuff, and kitchen stuff. Seeing as I bathe just about

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  , really cheap (like $2.50) Halloween-themed cruise for older undergraduates ... the rain. So, after a few minutes of brainstorming, we came up with this ... : 10/28/2006 12:06 PM Hey floor, I need a tight black t-shirt for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  on Amazon you can even get a free cell phone when you sign up for a ... enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you ... few days I've been busy designing a new television commercial for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of BS. I still feel like I never have enough time for all the things I ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  conscious and time does not pass —then I wake up with the thing already made ... love to use paint as a base for mixed media things) or a new media artist (I constantly have ideas for immersive art installations) or an

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025