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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  ourselves out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9:30 so that we could get over to ... slow start. Rachel, Elli and I started out the day at a leisurely hour of ... (that I have friends at) has the best view of the fireworks? Best food

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  wrote “LEFT” and “RIGHT” at the top of my paper to ensure that I wouldn ... ’ve also gotten a little better at the kinds of things that will probably ... hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student ... Jones, the former director of communications at M.I.T.'s admissions office, began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  , polarization). Of course, at the time I'd only had up to 8.03 and was attempting ... What's up? Yeah, it's the end of term, and we're all hosed. The week ... finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  is important because they were all at the bottom of my chains. so now ... to win at this point. let's talk about some of these hunter ... : maybe. the pressure is kind of on me at this point to kill people now, since we

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... of forty people at dinner. But mornings feel cold and quiet and serene ... It was the morning of the second or third day of classes and I had

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  a Course 20 degree, only one of them is, strictly speaking, Course 20 ... part of bioengineering here at MIT, where so many fantastic discoveries ... As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  arrive at MIT in the fall, to trying each and every one of these flavours and writing a review at the end of the process. If hired as a blogger, I ... actual toffee; there was at least a little bit of a faint burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  available at the rink. Fitness For Life This class is comprised of aerobic ... test certificate at the first class. Squash Introduction of the basic ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  chosen field of study. At the same time, I couldn’t imagine keeping myself ... the field, at present, is that a bunch of different perspectives each ... small cost to us: the cost of a new CD, a shirt or a night out at a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we ... ="linear algebra"]18.06[/annotation] at the end of the row--or it might've been ... The 2024s got their first look at the class ring on Friday! Having a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer ... , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  colorful Paint pictures, though. So at the end of the two-hybrid (which ... -- oftentimes there aren't so many degrees of separation between people. ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  -eyed Dennis-ness. For even if life throws thousands of lemons at you, curve ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  at the end of the semester. Oh, by the way, I am pretty sure Professor ... /opening up python consists of me screaming at a computer to stop messing up ... Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  graduated. At graduation, one of the traditions at MIT is for all the ... Cambridge and Boston skylines on the sides of the ring: while you're at MIT ... In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... sent home during march of my first year at mit, i spent many months at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of ... , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016