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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  -floor rooms of Building 4 here at MIT. Although the movie producers got the ... Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  they'd want to meet. (And they do, actually.) At the end of it all ... Once, when I was younger, I poured the entire contents of a carton of ... side. My dad, being the upstanding keeper of never throwing anything out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  spend a lot of time studying or in lecture or in lab or at the boathouse ... horrible, awful, no-good, wonderful, amazing place: Sleep at least 8 hours every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  requisite spoons at the end of the day to force myself to go to sleep. If I ... the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to become the antidote to my homesickness. I’ve always been a fan of the St ... being away from home and my family at that point, since I’d gone to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and ... been so exhausted from staring at screens all day that when I did have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place ... going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of ... really bad sense of what is near and far from us).  But today is a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  final project at the end of the semester online to show everyone what I ... of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving ... . at the end of high school — and honestly, for the majority of my life ... this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  mistake of taking two classes that occur at the same time, 8.021 and 18 ... two weeks, but at least I know I'm not broken anymore! Among all of ... This past semester, I haven't been taking much care of myself. Lately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  support of education and residential life at Duke, and how her conversations ... , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most ... Regulations of the Faculty 2.11: Classes shall be suspended during the following ... the Registrar in consultation with the Chair of the Faculty[…] — Day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... teammates sitting at a booth near the windows. When they spot me, the guy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... of getting in based on your test scores/GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  Hello all, it's been a while since I've done a Hidden Treasures at ... 've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures     ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and ... Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011