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• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  department, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the Picower ... balcony looking out toward the front of the building. The Stata Center is ... /tests, and d) your personal procrastination preferences, the weeks around the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  feelings. i spent the entirety of my saturday afternoon psetting for only ... back to my old ways when it comes to psets. i look at the problems and i ... 'm looking at the whiteboard, where in the corner it facetiously reads "Aiden

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... understand firsthand while exploring the mechanism for my 2.009 project (whose ... , I think that's something MIT looks for in their admissions decisions

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  wheel formula cars. MIT’s team designs and builds an electric car for the ... in different countries. While I could wax poetic for days about all the ... places to stay warm and out of the 30°F weather for five hours, we cold

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  : "Dendrite" comes from the Greek for "tree". If you look at a live neuron in 3 ... 've been working in Morgan's lab for the last three years, which makes me one ... , which form a scaffold for the receptors and their associated factors

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after midnight here on the East Coast, so Campus Preview Weekend begins today for ... Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of ... -4 supervisions for each class. So during the 5th week, you would've already tried ... scheduled supervision #2 for some day in week 5. However you realize, the day

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  look into the lives of Harvard Social Studies majors (for whom the class ... seemed ideal—an elective for my Philosophy (Course 24-1) major and the ... also petitioned for some extras. The next day, I got a personal email

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  .004. Usually the labs for 6.004 are not so bad - they take maybe five hours. For ... help from the TAs and LAs. Unfortunately, for several hours there was ... ", the fear that I won't do well enough for my work to have been worth it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  survey to solicit feedback on the MyMIT blogs (look for this in a few weeks ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last ... waitlisted and prepare it for the waitlist committee. And bug committee members

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  posting with an artist at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, who was ... greet. I met with Jane in her studio and immediately signed on for the project.  For the next 6 months, we worked tirelessly on the project

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  actually do exist! They’re out there! For you and you and you... As the sun ... was the fifth person in line (pretty good for an amateur like myself ... for sure!” Random person in the crowd: Kabobs! He would measure Kabobs

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  known because I'm always looking for excuses to better my novice ... completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... replica of Mousetrap the board game. Rather than have me add 25 hyperlinks ... be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10 ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  finding the information you're looking for is like searching for magnetic ... -colored bar a the top of every page? It's not just for decoration - it's your ... basic introduction to life and academics at MIT. And for the record, this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... ='with the Accelerated Materials Laboratory for Sustainability, headed by my ... so tonight midnight +-2 hours seems like the best time to view for the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  ’re expensive. For the 2014-15 year, the Basic 14 plan covers 420 meals and costs ... meal plan or not. However, regardless of the price, I signed up for the ... , slouched in the corner of Howard Dining Hall with a melancholy look on your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the ... at all the dining-plan-people trying to cook for the first time during ... Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for ... .[/annotation] That's why figuring out the best fit for you is so important. Fit can ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021