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• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  inside, bundled in sweaters and fluffy socks. I’m grateful that I can use ... disclaimer in case the title doesn't show this, I am writing this ... concept since last summer, in Denmark, when I realized that every mechanical

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... whenever it can be fit in, so the spring and fall classes are equally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of ... 've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... - Fundamentals of Ecology i.e. everything I've ever wanted in a biology class here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Attention Span Documentary: [annotation note="look at how the f and i in that ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be honest: I was bummed yesterday when Prof. Alan Guth '68 was again shut out for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... lecture in room 10-250, you can lean against the railing and think about how ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  . I'll do a series of entries quite soon about how to visit MIT this ... , we can afford to take some time off. As for me, I'll be spending about ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... professor talking about how he was biking downhill with his mouth open in ... how in his first teaching job he taught a class where only one (or a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  's see how long I can keep up the facade of "being new to the US" and ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple syrup. Bite me. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  't updated in 6 days; you guys are my American Idols. I also discovered while ... 'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I ... Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... made me wonder how i could've gotten tested for covid if i felt too sick ... to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  , why can't I?). Also that night, I found my bike... parked in the exact ... icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  misguided nonsense. I read selectively. Umberto Eco can tell me how to write a ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... Montreal by bus or train. I'll leave you with a few pictures... (you can see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005