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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  through the rest of term. Sometime over IAP, I started hanging out in the ... MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  . Anyway, I was hanging out with some of my friends from high school. (I ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... requirements. (9.10 would have been one of my six Course 9 electives had I not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Sidebar: Visiting MIT this summer

  

  UniversityRed Line: Harvard10am and 2pm, Monday-Friday Tufts UniversityRed Line: Davis9am, 10:30am, 1:30pm, Monday-Friday Boston UniversityGreen Line ... UniversityGreen Line, E Train: Northeastern9am, 10am, 2pm, 3pm, Monday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  Softtek   Graciás a la University of Monterrey for hosting us on your ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing.). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and ... student's essay or some other aspect of the application. The short answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  name of this lake, but doesn't it look like Hogwarts should be hanging ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about ... that Seattle is a gorgeous city. I was not disappointed. A lot of what

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  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 ... research. I'm sure all of you know by now about MIT's Undergraduate Research

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  every night. 1 extra hour of sleep >>>>> 1 extra hour of ... run out of clothes, and doing it weekly is actually much less stressful ... understanding the course material. Source: was sick and out of class for a few

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

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the ... , hang on to the handlebars, and meet the blast of wind in your face head ... So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  last job with the gang. I never really got the hang of using patterns ... I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  workout", and 2) If I can get the hang of this, I will look AWESOME at ... I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has ... stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... "] accurate[/caption] Like most of MIT, I've found myself with an abundance of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of the Boston Marathon"]the Sunday of Patriot's Day weekend ... Third) DTYD started in 1969 when two Bombers (Classes of ’70 and ’71

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it wasn't worth my time to apply to this university, but rather to emphasize how devastated I was by my rejection."] university's honors college

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023