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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  Last week was one of those weeks where I had either a test or ... made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost if by correcting our mistakes. It's a nice feature. Tuesday: I had a 7

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... , Microeconomics, and Thermo-Fluids Engineering). Overall, a great start to the ... distance, they’re far enough away to ignore for a bit longer. Happy Tuesday

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease ... , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  to have spent a semester looking at the world through the lens of ... , to chat with Prof. Jonathan Gruber, whose experiences spanned a PhD at ... , ultimately bringing him back to a professorship at his undergraduate alma

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... enrolled. In the spring Baker House usually drops a piano off their roof to ... "]it sucks.[/annotation] You have a week or two to drop a class and it costs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... to have more freedom and fewer social pressures. It's a great time to ... are great places to do this! "Right now I identify as a cisgender queer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  technical pursuits. And I've begun to feel a certain yearning to do something ... (because I've been practicing piano). And I have a cheesecake to bake for my girlfriend's birthday. Nothing like a well-rounded life to keep you busy.

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog will hopefully give you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd ... you have to be a minority to glean wisdom from, or participate in, this

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of know to work on a project that covers subjects in chemical engineering

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  fair to compare one or the other on par. Joining a fraternity doesn ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a specific fraternity (but this is a popular misconception). One week prior to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  since the beginning of the summer. I've done a lot of assays to explore ... advisor. On a day-to-day basis, I work independently... after working in the ... ) if one went to MIT for undergrad. My friend Fadam '07, a course 8

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... will be a great opportunity to share your CPW experiences as well as

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... to get Frank Wilczek, as he is also a writer, poet and is known to tell

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  biomedical engineering, join a fraternity, and try to engineer the human body on a microchip to name a few. So if I were to describe my experience ... years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006