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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway. My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  leadership to life at MIT. At first I thought, hey leadership is leadership ... , let’s go back to my first paragraph. If you thought that could be ... Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  write the first draft of the whole thing and submit it to some journal ... finished it, and gave it to Morgan (do I have to say that he's the professor ... talking to someone, and I'll be like "my boyfriend Adam" and they're like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I ... to finish first?" Finishing first was indeed an AMAZING experience ... for finishing the hunt first is getting to write next year's puzzle) I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... to know your group Schedule meetings with your senators and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  ”s. As first semester finals came to a close in late December, I saw no ... crosswalk on the way to the football field.  Despite this, for the first few ... to do the psets with and I hadn’t heeded the professor’s first

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  this was my first exposure to machine learning or AI. To say it was ... commitment. For the first two weeks of IAP, it met from 11am to 3pm five days a ... For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  doctor and are thinking of coming to MIT first, you're not setting yourself ... Before committing to any major choice, I think you have to be ready and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... to be released. I've spent the last week stressing over the question ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  not be here if it were not for her. She was the first person to believe ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  have any advice though, it would be to focus on learning math well first ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... feels very tempting to put off tasks like these which require creativity

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first ... at all the dining-plan-people trying to cook for the first time during ... friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I

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

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  same goes for your SAT score. I will be the first to tell you that it ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  . Just like humans, cells develop in response to their environment; a heart ... Khademhosseini has utilized cutting-edge techniques to mimic the microenvironment that heart muscle cells needs to make functional, beating fibers. An

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  've talked about this before, but did you talk to the coach first before ... excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to those this week. But we've been instructed to clear everything from our

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the United States to conduct information sessions. This week, there will be ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  first name is Edward. When I got to MIT, Edmund and I thought it would be ... Okay, here's that "real entry" I promised yesterday. First some pic ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please."]IAP[/annotation] period and decided he wanted to make an automated nerf turret. Here is how ... : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022