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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  , gothic lolitas...) Public universities are seen as more prestigious than ... United States is viewed by other countries, how tiny and insignificant my ... biggest impact on me was the revelation the United States is one of the only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  not universally feasible on campus. In four of the twelve dorms ... such as right here that Introduction to Solid State Chemistry was the ... solid-state polymer batteries for performance in high temperatures, which

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  ). Other schools that are the Beavers include Oregon State U, hockey powerhouse Bemidji State U, Boston-area business college Babson, and the City ... health day" to see what I mean). It's nice to have a long weekend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  high school. The seniors sneak inflatable beach balls into commencement ... gazillion ways around this system, and thus managed to get 9 beach balls and 2 inflatable dolphin rafts into graduation. The 9 beach balls were on my person

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• 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 / How to Human

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

  

  signaling that I am bisexual. When I state that I am a computer science and ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... takes a long time before I get to the bottom of why I’m so upset. When I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their ... questions or participate in a larger setting. Kinda a long-running anxiety ... class, but course 3 (Material Science) offered a solid-state chemistry

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  wanted to head back home. After a long, demanding yet equally rewarding ... . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... the state. I wasn’t going to “waste a summer” after all! Deep breaths

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018