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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... lounge how much free time they have in the average weekday. Mark '07 ... to major in course 4 and course 5, respectively.

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like ... curl my hair before class, but today I had to bust my rump to get into ... UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... to get used to. i loved the choreography and had a great time getting ... get to perform at OVRDRV, Boston University's dance showcase, and Dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... spray to help it release and I dipped the balloons multiple times to get a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  First Day. (credit to L.S. '18) I will never get tired of the wonderful ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... , in the interest of learning to eat independently and healthy, I bought

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  seem absurd at first glance and obvious in hindsight, so you get used to ... give both balls to my friend, one in each hand, leave the room, and give them the option to either swap the balls or keep them in place. then i re

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee ... ~Ana Remember that awesome movie, Back to the Future? Well in the ... in the future. ~Kirsten Also on the bezel is the green building, how

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get ... and university level, thanks in part to programs like STS (started in ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• 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…

  

  by Rena Katz CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to sum it all up in one blog post, much like it's hard to ... living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... dancing alone in my room to some tunes. Here are 4 songs for you, with

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... hall: "I live in Baker now and I have to pay for preferred dining, so I ... food allergies that this entry didn't answer. I'll get to them. Really. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  -of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that "fresh start" feeling that students always get in the fall, but the drive ... encapsulate the feelings I get whenever I have to say goodbye to a chapter of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  ? Lit by a glaring light so that students can continue to work at one in ... ...I think that's going to be a homemade moat/river. And here we get a more ... Every year, the campus is engulfed by frenetic activity in the week

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in ... just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  , whatshouldtimcallme.tumblr.com, get ready to go out at night, or just stay in to karaoke ... worried about getting put in a quad, there are only 10 on campus, all located in Baker House. Don't sweat it!) The year got off to a rocky start

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  half hours in Montreux before I had to get on the last train back home ... Montreux! No. Well, do you know when I can get in to see the statue? No. I ... of my musical preferences. So, upon getting to Europe I knew that what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... particular fan of question 4--it involved figuring out how long to heat a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to ... intense – in addition to simulating our designs in software, almost

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023