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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like ... off with Biology. I knew I was going to take biology my first semester

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  Like all great creative people, from Claude Monet to Steve Jobs to ... blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee ... , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from med school.   My flight was delayed due to ongoing construction at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance your understanding of the resources available to you as a new member of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have turned out if I’d gone to Harvard. (I think I’m glad I didn’t, I think I ... opportunity to cross-register at Harvard (or Wellesley, or MassArt, or the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3. 1 Congratulations, Early Action applicants! You perfected

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in ... need to be “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the ... submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your MyMIT account from

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  talking about what his first year at MIT is going to be like. That post was ... 's Thursday the 18th, so I'm going to take the time to submerge myself into ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... Dragon Boat team and were introduced to the sport. We spent some time on ... “trained” for half an hour to compete in a mock-race. Everyone was super

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... , sigh, and shut the fridge. Two minutes later, I return to the fridge ... ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... , it really doesn't take much to make me laugh hysterically). On the off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 Things to Do Before I Graduate finish the requirements for my two majors ... - that I will blog more this year. It's a promise to myself as much as it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  new grad they’ve ever hired, so when I found out they were going to have ... , are you even old enough to go to a bar?” (“Of course! barely.”) My first month-and-a-bit was spent building a custom charting package to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011