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• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  's supposed to start in less than 48 hours. Figure 2. MIT's travel agent ... ) senior capstone class, which is essentially a course on "How To Make Stuff ... . Friday: I mosey on over to Logan Airport not-so-bright and early in the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  data, I also get to help a grad student complete the next step in her ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously ... .9000/intro to linguistics. I wasn't really thinking specifically about getting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  in person, or just how much "mathematical maturity" I need to take it ... selections, so that you can introduce yourself, get acquainted, and check in ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  what I expected, but it's so hard to tell how much of that is due to this ... wanted to know was, how does it make me feel? I think I'll have to do ... imagine on how to improve my loaf, reading articles (which all contradict

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  when trying to get in touch with them, as it may take them several days ... st, we will simply email you instructions with how to roll over into ... considered for Early Action. Q: Should I rush report my scores to get them to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  ...which makes me think of how much time i had this summer to do things!! i took ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room ... times. i just want to get homework done!! and do nothing else!!! but ever

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  belief that things will get done, no matter how impossible it seemed in the ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... .04 was how useful it can be to have good people to work with. 4. 5

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  watching a History Channel special on the Kennedys), I had to come in at 7 ... attach slippery objects to my feet and get on a frozen chair dangling from ... miracle I am able to get back down without killing myself, I'm supposed to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  behind the inertia matrix and how to use in summation form to simplify ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... hate how the living groups work here because I have to live with the same

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... we play and suggestions on how to do it. Several months ago, I joined the Wind Ensemble for 3 reasons: I didn’t want to forget how to play

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  from chipotle with the app, i will have enough points to get a free ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... about all the things that must have happened in there in the past. how

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  to talk to someone else in the department who specializes in IT. Have ... was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  ’t interested in getting involved in anything romantic with anybody at the moment ... , we struggled through a problem set, we sat next to each other in ... haven’t truly been single in years. I became accustomed to all the broad

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  know how to make. This led to me somehow being designated as being "in ... everything in their rooms and taping their room keys somewhere to their body ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... this whole process. But that Saturday morning I was there to learn how to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... ;Introduction to Research Topics in Neuroscience.” Emilienne says that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  of getting in based on your test scores ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... potentially rake in tens of thousands of dollars. Reply to no-reply corporate

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019