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• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  for the show. “Hey, that would be great,” I said. I like the Peas, and ... tour of CSAIL, the artist had a look at projects from Daniela Rus ... I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  entered the lottery for advising seminars (and may apply for one of the ... designated time for you to explore MIT to its fullest, to test the boundaries ... looking for diverse people who represent a broad range of MIT's multi

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  looks like in the sciences, but in reality most people are sort of ... not for the lazy. So back to our hypothetical biology undergrad --> grad student --> postdoc in academia (for the sake of argument, let

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... mistook organization for safety from email blasts. I didn’t forecast the ... I spontaneously combust.  Looking at the other categories, it was a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  looking forward to as a time to showcase to the incoming class what ... freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the ... ! The Lab for Chocolate Science did chocolate truffle making! Obviously ... . Undergraduate Association President Harel Williams deals the cards for a fierce

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and ... , much less use one. Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin on the Pond for ... to check out a book for the first time (as it turns out, they exist for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  format the post so that he posts, so be it. look, dan, cj has a duty. he ... make plans, right? i kept trying to look forward to the future, tried to ... — cj: and it was good! things were good! i ran away, and for the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  Experiences to enjoy outside of this box. I also have some options for the way I ... for the undergrad. ii. I started writing this blog in the fall, when ... I resorted back to work-as-a-coping-mechanism for the spring.  

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always ... in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies ... sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I ... for free (as opposed to the Student Art Association classes which, while

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is ... "] what the page looked like when I found it[/caption] The last time I ... . Anyway, I scoured the internet for reliable sources on Gary Wang’s life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  say magic, but we actually had to go through the proof for this and I ... failing miserably. Parents just sat there, looking at the board, pretending ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... replacement for no charge. The replacement was scheduled to arrive that weekend ... was able to charge my phone for two days. And then the charger broke

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon ... Strips Food for the little guys Live Plants Salvinia minima Java

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  getting up for the 10am class! I also had a UROP meeting -- I'm developing a new Web project for the BE department with my friend (and fellow ... it's gone Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  really liked the I Did Something Bad, Look What You Made Me Do and Don’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were ... beauty in happiness, sometimes in the most mundane of things, for being

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... for calculus) and calculus-based physics. It’s rare that an applicant is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  looks like a very flat baby sloth is hugging the underside of your chin ... a ghost, white with shock at how good looking the ground from which ... physically ill after I asked him to take a closer look. Like the end of Raiders

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011