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• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this ... Lab (http://halab.mit.edu) is seeking a UROP student to actively ... teams from NASA, Draper, JPL and Honeywell. This is a unique opportunity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  getting maybe one card a month? How does that change anything? Yes, this ... Championships next weekend. The thing is, no matter how many times I told myself ... cheering squad, but this is a 6-km race. Add up all those strategically

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at ... Eric Lander is the role model. He “played a pioneering role in all ... Project” (source). There's also Professor Robert Weinberg, who is “a pioneer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  during the "reading season." A reading day is a day that we admissions ... , "Whoa, one of the girls in the third photo from the top is wearing a ... !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... course description doesn't exactly convey how the class is "analytically

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  CPW is officially over! The CPW weather machine ended up pulling through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... Gregor House MacGregor House is the West Campus dorm between Burton Conner (or

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  that just seemed like gross misuse of the Internet.) This is about how I ... ALBUM IS SO GOOD. DO NOT CHALLENGE MY WORD.) I just ate a sandwich and a ... for a small instead of a tall? SMALL IS A RELATIVE TERM, mmmk?) Let

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a ... . My application is complete, and a call to the finaid office last week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will NEVER have a pleasantly warm spring break? Hmm...well, there are a few

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Wednesday, the line is much shorter, more similar to what the lines were the ... really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you ... 't happen much, though. I'm not really a fan of reading fiction as much as I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  barely slept, my brain is completely liquid, I haven't had a real meal in days (I pretty much made a dinner out of Sun Chips and pineapple soda the ... the most miserable two and a half days of my life. IHTFP is a timeless

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... allowed five pages. I am convinced that there is an inverse correlation between the size of my handwriting and my grade point average, a fact that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  better than the former. I’m not sure if this is a problem or not, but I no ... sport I started is also no longer fun. After a few weeks of not going to ... projects is going at a snails pace, and I've barely gotten through half a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  ." "Alright, what do you like to do in school?" "I like math. . ." "MIT is a ... more debt than is probably healthy (financial aid statements came out a ... wanted to go to MIT, it wasn't just a name anymore. How did I know? A lot

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  , it's remarkable how much Mountain Dew really influenced the development ... . No, only with a pass. Please, this is the only thing I want to do in ... up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Urban Studies and Planning at MIT! On the DUSP: Part 2

  

  Urban Studies and Planning (Course 11) is a small, interdisciplinary major ... . There is a path for every set of skills and interests and you’ll be ... very... abstract. After bouncing around for a while, I'm now a double in

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  . Each trip to the rink not only is a 25 min commute, but add in the cost ... skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how finals period is the time of semester when all the a capella groups give

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  , getting an A- is pretty much the best thing in the world. Well, besides ... one where Spock says "Logic is a little bird, chirping in a meadow." So ... . Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison is not a jerk though. He

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  programming is a lot like cooking, which I am a fan of. Writing good code is very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients ... out wrong…but I thought the cake was a lie…?) 3. There is nothing more

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010