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• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  really want to do them all justice, so I'm gonna answer them next week ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... how some people might find it to be a little slow, but I personally didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to ... world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and equipment would be limited to extremely experienced graduate students and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6 ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT ... second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music ... , sat right next to St. Mary’s stop on the green line, across the street ... ; and pulling, with trembling fingers, timid, slippery walls up to the sky

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... and it makes coming to practice each day something I look forward to ... , life advice, or just want someone to talk to.” Diving student

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and ... flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who ... my way back to Berlin. I had booked a flight for Thursday night, since

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... -year course that attempted to cover art history and regular history ... adopted neoclassicism, an art style which in many aspects attempted to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  post comparing applying to college to applying to jobs. It's job ... return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things, where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... low self-esteem and little to no experience in the content covered by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  To set the mood: Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II  🎵 Take 1: Keep Calm ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... leaving MIT for a semester would make it harder for us to adjust back to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... do research next to grad students. (One of the classes I'm taking this ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... that I can recall, I've received something that flies. I learned to fly r

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to ... /criticize anyone for what they've done. Instead, I'm going to give you the facts, as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  final presentations and write-ups to the PI that explain the data taken ... to use it. the procedure for running Artemis is fairly automated so I will be heading over to IAC-80 (80cm telescope) at some point and then

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  I’ve learned many things after coming to MIT. But among the differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and symphonies. my attention span has gotten worse over the years, to the point ... - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... have to tweak the code, tweak the bot, line the bot back up, and try ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022