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• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ", or as I like to call it, "How To Write Good Code That Won't Kill People," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other ... "Communication Systems and Networks", or as I like to call it, "How the Internet

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... around in the back of my head. I felt I wouldn't fit in unless my idea of a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... France coming to mind. But during my years in admissions, I've seen ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  interest in math and science that would ultimately place her on MIT ... ). She’s intent on pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and would ... , things worked out. I asked when the gravity of it all sunk in. There were

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point ... not completed quite as much as I would have hoped. Unwilling to go to ... some more work on campus. In-between work sessions, I wandered campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... backs of donkeys in the developing world, said, “The reason I love working ... and make it work in the world. " Now that’s a theme I can really stand

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  you were doing, you could in theory get observation time on the VLA. I ... astronomers I know, writing proposals is a huge pain in the butt; it's one of ... conference in January, I talked with a bunch of the NRAO astronomers, who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  . :-) Reason #261 That I Would Live In EC If They'd Let Me Because they build ... how.) Facebook I see that many of the '10s have set up their MIT email ... Couple Of Weeks In my last entry, I promised to answer the popular

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  -frosh considering Ebony Affair this year or in the future, I would highly recommend ... it would be like. So with that, I wanted to put together a little recap ... wrap for Ebony Affair! In the span of 3 days, I got to meet people from

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a short time) which is some 5 miles away. Someone asked me recently how I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  really well. How am I supposed to play music like this? Come on!   ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and ... hope! Maybe take a trip to California, or something. I don't know. I don

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... story after, but here’s the legend of how murals in EC came to be, as told

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... much so. If all you did was study then you would go insane. Insanity in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... , and Rocco try to figure out how to prepare their chicken tetrazzini--I ... sauce. In all honesty, I'm sure that Russ was awarded his PhD not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  are you going to get the legislators in Washington DC to care? How are ... within my lifetime (in 2050), this is something that I need to care about ... the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  was visiting alone, since that's how I would be experiencing them for ... really likes Taylor Swift, it felt very "So here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off")) I had no clue what I was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... what I’d do without math. Now I’m a double major in Political Science ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... ? Thanks =] I would take 7.01x during the freshman year if you're planning to ... biology classes, I think 7.012 (offered in the fall) and 7.013 (spring) are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... trip, we placed our faith in ad hoc planning. Anne and I left our hotel ... . Unfortunately, there was a car parked in it, and removing it would require that we

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008