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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  engineering for that much. I got some immediate responses saying that the professors were looking for more experienced undergrads or that their lab was ... matrix analog in which we'll try to seed the cells so it ends up looking

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... technological world: what does this mean for human life, both individually and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  up at 4 AM after I-forget-how-many hours' sleep and start on a thermo ... less dangerous things available for me to accidentally inhale over the ... --that's been outlawed for almost two years now by Dean Larry Benedict. I like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said some really stupid stuff my freshman year). I picked up this trait and ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... took pictures. I'll also summarize the pictured hacks for you. It's been ... "Massachusetts" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", replacing banner put up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  -- but I don't think I've ever spent so much time studying for a test in my ... night and write my statement of purpose. (For grad school, you don't get ... PM on Friday night (actually because I almost blew something up... but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... my values, great live music, gourmet food, and great places to shop for ... and you'll have a better chance of standing out. Don't get hung up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  Warning: this blog features spoilers for the video game Celeste ... will be waiting for you when you’re done. You have been warned. (I will ... experience with imposter syndrome has been a somewhat interesting one. For me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , but I think they could have come up with something much cooler for such ... . (If anyone else has an explanation for this, by all means, drop me a note.) It's been an Institute tradition since about 1929 for each class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  living room floor, rapidly typing up my last MIT essay twenty minutes ... really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... auditioned for my choir's winter concert solo. I went out with friends to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  'm taking the writing class for a couple reasons - first, I have a lot of fun ... is notoriously difficult...*cringe* Other things I'm up to this ... keep it up. It might not be too hard, though - there are a few Indian

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  later, I'm finally about ready to finish up this entry on marching band ... that our clarinet player, Michael '09, built for us. Since we don't have ... when the drummer gets tired of making up a cadence, we just let her use

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before ... . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a curious phenomenon began… phenomenizing. I started staying up later, but not

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to take at MIT! CourseRoad is an invaluable tool for MIT students – it has

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... this post is so long). Thank you all for your emails and kind words and for sharing your experiences! I appreciate y’all! Number 1 tip

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  hopefully be up soon! You can also go to afrotc.com for information about ... great option for anyone adMITted who wanted to consider it (and now, a ... Tessa is on the right, excited for an incentive flight on a KC-135

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  concentrations. For the minor, students will take four required courses ... experiences back to Sloan in a follow-up course titled Leadership and ... accepting and friendly place for gay and lesbian students (this is my outsider

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... ,” which I ended up taking this past spring, and (to put it simply) thought ... different and mutually conflicting theoretical perspectives on what makes for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may ... gleefully puts upon themselves. IHTFP: An acronym for MIT life. Either "I ... departments are numbered up to 24, but here are the most common majors: 6

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  leading up to some unknown structure. There’s a mural on the lower ... . As if you could box culture to be a single thing, I say. We head up ... talk about. The sidewalk is level for a while. And then it leads down

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019