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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities in order to do more work. So

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two ... Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , Chucks kicking like a contented child, while he talked about the importance ... Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  but he spent a great deal of time talking about how important it was to prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... Excellence in Mentoring award given to a professor who serves as an advisor

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... importance of oil. But also, he put the challenge to the freshmen, the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites ... against their contract and policies. But most important: the choice to make

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to ... Manned space exploration has been limited to fairly short missions to nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has ... ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  a few weeks ago, and asked us to apply some of the concepts we learned ... choice and group paper about any organization’s response to an important ... last thing I want after a week of lectures is a lecture on “how to be a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... couple months, I've said a lot of hopefully-temporary goodbyes to a lot of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to ... burned the midnight oil already, you’ll get to hear a couple of my thoughts

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which Jenny and I listened to while conducting important admissions business ... numbers up, we are likely to see a record low EA admit rate, lower than last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  trying to finish up all your applications when you'd rather be hanging out. We understand and want this process to be as painless as possible! Here are the most important things to keep in mind as you wrap your MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... mean a number things, but it all boils down to one simple question: “What ... there, figure out what's most important to you, because if you plan on

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced ... through a global financial crisis, and it's a dynamic time to be studying ... . It's helpful to know that actually Mankiw is a Republican, and was one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  's basically an initiative to encourage people to make a positive difference in ... send a larger group of kids to camp. There are a thousand project entries ... here's a form you can fill out if you're willing to create a Pepsi

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now ... : Is now a good time to talk? D: Ahhh, sure. Q: You’re down to 3

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... 've managed to put this aside with a million reasons. I should be working. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  ’t sleep until 3am because I hit a critical mass of a desire to write. So ... felt like I needed to live more life and read more before I had a right ... anything anymore? Or was it just a way for the scrapers to source information

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... 's commenting system, but to me that seemed like a bad choice. It excludes not ... everything posted on this page to be imported back into Facebook. These are all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012