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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  directly into other people’s heads (pay close attention to my use of the word ... this video that I made with the help of another class of 2019 (Thank You ... result in the crashing of the internet and the explosion of my computer. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  Kuwait, is there any possibility of receiving the Admissions decision ... long time. I cant exactly remember the number of hours as the'd go in ... of my work there in the form of a letter of reference or is my noting

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... .) Psets stand for Problem Sets, and they are the equivalent of the "homework ... . * They are comprised of mainly critical thinking problems, and the number

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... the application season a little, of which I was actually nearly completely unaware. So I kind of missed the deadline to wish you guys good luck

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  offered in the fall. So constructing an Independent Study seemed like our ... student, who very generously offers to briefly interject the professor ... has a lot of incredible experience in the exact area you were hoping to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... ="as in, drawing a line produces a line at the tip of my pencil, and not a ... the sense of different materials—I most often used one that was hard and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of ... were the last solar eclipse of the century. Now priorities are such that ... the love of the game. So when one of our players reaches DeRon’s level

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  I had lunch at Harvard today, on the stone steps of a building like ... School of the Museum of Fine Arts) appealed to me when I applied here, and ... “The Poetics of Place” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a last

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  different mediums offer different experiences A study in the rise of zombie ... graveyard of unfinished blog posts to bring you… a highlight reel of the past ... stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... : radio astrophysics, a measurement of the 21cm hydrogen line*. 3. Starting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  are a handful of graduate students, and I’m the token undergraduate ... communication talents with him to the policy world of Washington D.C. He communicates in two directions: he advocates on behalf of the astronomy community

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night you'll see MIT kids like you never knew them before! Some of the most ... difference from the stage to you to just nigh the electric breakdown of air

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn ... favorite parts of high school, and robotics is the main reason why I ever got

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... , not sure tho :( It's not an issue with the size of my tree -- I've only

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on ... the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... of my best friends from MIT finished his two-year fellowship in the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... just in time for the freshman spring season to finish. End of freshmen

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  that getting into MIT would have been "the ultimate recognition of all ... . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... anyone in the eye again. And then, over empty tubs of ice cream and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012