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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record-high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets ... ://web.mit.edu/spotlight/lookback-2006/ for a look back at the spotlights. So what’s in store for 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . She’s almost 30 and lying in bed with a heating pack on her back after only a gentle 10 mile skate. I look away, embarrassed for her and think ... I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with ... mechanical engineering department with a focus on biomedical devices, and I ... into different states and colleges. I traveled to West Virginia for a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  So most people start off the new year with a new hairstyle, but since I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  I don't get enough sleep, and nobody wants to hang out with a Mollie ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an ... model for how the d-orbitals of a metal interact with molecules bonded to ... had a sophomore physics mentor, and there are clubs with study hours and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the ... best of it and kill two birds with one stone by taking a class that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  singles, doubles, triples and quads. For a quad, I suppose, one could have ... professors. And, for that matter, a good job answering the campus one, but I ... articles ever written about MIT by an outsider (and look for the familiar

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  gifts for loved ones. Don't be the kid rolling up on Christmas Day with a ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly, chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... Lauderdale with a magnet program, and the extreme disparity between the quality ... classroom with a remedial reading class; the reading class had the room for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  circle into R^3. It provides an important set of examples for topology and ... . Hylomorphism: both an anamorphism and a catamorphism. This event? A hylomorphism ... dissolved into the real world forever, the night air bites with a cold we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  and pass around a can of Monster for morale. 3:00 — It is now 3 am. Two ... tea for lunch, and then I take a caffeine pill because a large black tea will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  this fine afternoon, heading to the Laboratory for Energy and the ... a certain group on thefacebook. And then I realized that thefacebook ... log them all in a little book and sort them all alphabetically and put

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  travelling is stressful and twelve hours is a long time to spend in a room with ... didn’t want to wake. Megabus, for leaving promptly at 3 am, minus a minute or plus two and a half hours. The same guys as above, again, for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  death on the street, with less dignity than a stray dog. And it’s not just ... . Look at this country’s administration and tell me how you expect a ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  India, and getting lunch with a friend in Tokyo along the way. I got to ... (already very generous for a 23 year old) salary. And in that moment, I found ... myself working and engaging with a community of like-minded researchers

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  will be more willing to hire you and there is not a lot of hassle with ... research teams. One term may not be enough for both you and your faculty ... options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... engaging with while growing up is Amy Chua and her book about being a Tiger ... nights and shooting stars The sky swallowing up all worries with deep

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  their interests and have a wider range of interests (both in any one ... dinner with a group of people and learn about a new topic from someone or ... -like college here] where everyone's competing for A's all the time and i get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  approaching the Infinite, first stop, then look both ways, and then make your ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... and learn. If the Infinite is crowded, consider the center line a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007