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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  'm sure a lot of you high school seniors are. On one hand, I've had a super ... something about the molecular basis of a disease, odds are that Professor ... professors being famous after a while -- I mean, pretty much all of them are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  all the chairs in the microscope room are too short for me to see the ... . On our way to dinner, Adam made the brilliant decision to jump over a ... . For science and engineering, research experience and professor recs are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  -places'. In metathesis reactions, double bonds are broken and made between ... ' contributions, synthesis methods have been developed that are more efficient ... MIT. Ig Nobel prizes are awarded to, um, "interesting" scientific

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... was no longer consumed by the fact that I wasn’t where I wanted to be. I ... are going with a different candidate.” I don’t remember what was said

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  stereotypes that discourage them. In presenting about MIT and where these biases ... the tallest, freestanding structure, measured by the height of where the ... in Palermo, Sicily, where she was doing her Soroptimist presentation

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  full advantage of being in a place where places of unknown are only a ... insane concept of the seasons that do exist here in New England are just ... be on the highway, where I got to see some of the amazing fall foliage

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in ... why write about this on 03/13? Tomorrow, you are going to be able to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  buried deep are beginning to surface. He remembers the harsh stinging ... admitted to MIT because of affirmative action. Maybe his SAT scores are an ... in quite a pickle. Where did Mills go wrong? By working harder not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  this hyperspecific feeling. Many things are just better expressed in terms of color. Feelings - physical and emotional - and colors are ... . Not that I didn’t enjoy it - high school was the place where I a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  LUChA (La Union Chicana por Atzlan). LUChA has a mentoring program where underclassmen are matched up with upperclassmen and you are given $5 to go out and ... Office)  where you can apply to be interviewed for a lot of different

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  their numbers are growing. When you come on campus, in fact, it's almost ... taking D-Lab: Development, the first class in the series, where we learn ... are restricted by the things easily and cheaply available in the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  past, but it seems to be commonly held anyway there are probably plenty ... mit (they aren’t students) have been hosting weekly gatherings where we ... the work I need to do. And yes, home is that house where you no longer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... students are understanding. After cancelling most plans I was looking ... where you get the sniffles, skip class, and get a Happy Meal. It was just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  feeling was that I was not good enough, and, at a school where I already ... . There have been ups and downs—there always are—but, when I think about ... . These are the moments which have allowed me to develop my voice, both

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as its own season, where freshman year was seasons 1 and 2, hence making ... here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... , are confusing at first, but makes talking with other MIT students and ... seems and sounds so shiny and new, to the point where I couldn't possibly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  are not. For the curious: "DUSP EXPLORER is an online, interactive ... find information about our current faculty, where we work, and how our ... urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Margaret Mary Lloyd, where have you been?! This is probably ... all times throughout childhood. It may be something you all are ... ethanol, are fed into a reactive distillation column that converts the feeds

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... sneezed white boogers onto the grass near where I park my car. I am clearly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life ... -oriented and less "how many hours are you in the office" based, so I can work

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010