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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  - beating myself up for not enjoying something I ‘should’ be enjoying. I ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... grills were fired up and ready to hand hundreds of prefrosh and MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  ceremony came up, the green team won a giant foam trophy for finishing first ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A ... week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your burdens are lifted: IAP, and summer. That's why for this summer, I decided ... being responsible for doing Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of ... balled up a white t-shirt covered in even more Twister polka-dots and

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased ... blog entry. Application tracking: This is the big update for today. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one ... my darn itchy hands for escaping necessary work+studying way too often ... mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those of you who are out of the loop, fire fighters cook enough food for an ... for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  what MIT has to offer. Being an artsy person, I signed up for a pre ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  pretty much the perfect metaphor for what MIT has been like for me thus far. It starts out really exciting! You get accepted, everybody cheers for ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  :45am: I actually wake up. I look outside and see that the bad weather hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... on their way for tonight's event. 8:20am: Ben starts spreading the word

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  up "no later than this Friday." Two and a half Fridays later (or ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... completely forgot about this until Kel '10 walked up to me after our 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  places at the same time, I had to wake up very early to go fly for Draper ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege ... from consulting firms and investment banks showed up on campus last fall

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and ... sincerely apologize for the large size of my blog banner. Holy cow. To be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German ... would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... for at least 40 hours of desk service every week. Also, she's been ... like she's going to cough up a kidney or something every time I see her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005