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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics ... mathematical models of neurons. I spent so many hours in the W20-5 Athena cluster

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  myself.) The "hate" part is simply that there aren't enough hours in the ... simply need to get over). Once the EA apps are in, the questions and anxiety seem to really heat up in the applicant pool. So I also try to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  way to the Western Avenue Bridge, which is near the Harvard Business ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... , but i think this summer is a testament to the fact that you can have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... early admission rate is often much, much higher than the regular action admission rate). The reason is that we are committed to admitting no more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... it is. i stand there with the cube in my hand, my brain going, is it ... in my class were way over, so much so that the professor changed the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand, we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... incapable of doing the things we would much rather being doing, so most

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result ... juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  sound smart) likes to talk about how the electoral system is "broken ... to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  … 9.24 Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System is my last and most ... speaker, it’s one of the most knowledgeable speakers in the field! Seriously ... of the most important people in the world in the field of animal models

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  ElAtEd To ThE cOvId-19 CrIsIs, read: there"]here[/annotation] at MIT has come to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been ... offer you my congratulations. Welcome to the most stressful four years of ... in itself, I have learned the most about myself during the times I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  this year in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange program. Possibly due to his ... the best way to learn something is to teach it, and for me the easiest ... proof is one of the easiest way to trump your cognitive biases: either it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  of MIT page, was the most fundamental restructuring of MIT in its ... , educa-tional, and labor. There is a concerted effort to increase the ... the same time from ventures in which its leadership is no longer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  real. The next day I ventured to Constitution Hill in one of the more ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid ... . In that first week alone I learned so much, mostly because this was my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  to 23% when I charged it in the bathroom of an old abbey, and had ... those stones. When I got to the hostel, the woman welcomed me in and I ... ? Not since I was in Tucson. This is lovely, and I appreciate the beauty

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  about cheerleading. (To be totally honest, this is pretty much because ... rule, cheer for any team which asks us to. The water polo coach came in ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  course, winter in the northeast takes cold to an extreme, so fall is like ... in Cambridge. As someone who loves scenic views to take pictures, the ... year, the fall season is usually the perfect time to put them on as the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  this: the point of college is to become educated. And in some ways, MIT ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... trying to convince others not to make the same mistake: Burton Conner IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  undergraduate women being affiliated to one of the [annotation note="the six ... 're interested, I've also talked a bit in the past about what the sorority ... personal home for the past three years. Our tour guide, Maddie L. ‘26, is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  interested in and excited about. it is really, really, really nice to wake up in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... , and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017