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• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  always be something that you can improve, but as long as you don’t let it ... exaltations. The state of my existence seemed to be exactly the same one step ... and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  degree temps they regularly weather. But the baby penguins were cute little ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree heat for as long as I was allowed. Needless to say, it was a good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  name like: "Dr. Anna Ho" or "Anna Ho, Ph.D." Pretty sweet. How long do ... the application process consist of? An application fee. A REALLY LONG ... student to pursue his or her degree without any obligation on the part of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this year. Course 6n’t For better or worse, my own MIT degree audit is ... ="Intro to Solid-state Chemistry"]3.091[/annotation], [annotation note ... ’t think this degree of flexibility is necessarily bad, even if it can lead

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  long run." My favorite story from him was when he told us about his ... chronic diseases. Co-founder and CEO Laura go a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT and later a Masters in Public Health from Emory University

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  Washington University in St. Louis, and down the hall was a colleague from ... take, though there is some degree of choice for each of the required ... the normal student using 8 terms to get a degree, most take at least one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations ... 'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works ... E class I need for my degree, and I'm doing a lot better this term. I'm too

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  doing okay? How are you feeling? What's your emotional state? I find the ... beginning of the (long, painful) growth process, but even in 48 hours after ... state of thinking too much, and I'm scared if I think too much, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  ’t have to be this dramatic, but it generally helps your case to state your ... .784. After getting off a rather long waitlist, I realized it conflicted ... explicitly stated anywhere above, but scheduling issues are inevitably going to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  , Formerly a Key but Now My Math Grade”, “Solid State Chemistry of Fractures ... so, you only saw them at the state math competitions once or twice or ... and long integrals. But hey, I guess that's enough pedantry. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  undergrad, as long as you go somewhere spectacular for grad school. I have ... junior year. I was on the varsity quiz team, which went to the state ... other two. I sang first soprano in the Ohio all-state choir. I kept little

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 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…

  

  .) He immediately stated that it was a good program and that he saw it ... purified and frozen to transform it into a liquefied state so it can be shipped in specialized tanks over long distances. By making a natural gas

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor ... from Northwestern University’s science and health journalism program, I ... major and current math enthusiast. Through a long and winding 11-year path

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  the weather know it... i swear it jumped like 5 degrees celsius as soon ... to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... professors at the university near home, sent out "cold emails" aka begged

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long ... years long, but, because I'd already taken a few classes and started on my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  train stations for the past three weeks. It's long, hard work, hence my ... , University of Michigan, Duke, the Naval Academy, or UF, we still had what we ... , but the entire experience can be condensed into a long, resounding

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 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.

  

  in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how ... . The class is centered around a semester-long group project where we ... MIT's campus complete with video clips and 360-degree panoramas of

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

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  ) - after not touching English since finishing university. Words such as ... don't produce trash? (they seem to be ubiquitous in the States, on the ... . Waseda University （早稲田大学、わせだだいがく）, a really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... . Finally, one page in her browser history reveals the source of this weekend-long ... that assigned each state a letter. Three of us worked on it together, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012