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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  extra work, and basically everyone who applied got one. (Although I’m not ... work per week and others 50. Recently, one of my amazing friends attended ... , I applied to GTL Spain and was not accepted—although I was contacted

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  , while also working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a ... referred to as an octopus: lots of arms, not always working in sync or clear ... should work where you're happy and productive. Personally, I've

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  to not drop it. I worked on the problem set due that week with some ... ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time, I failed.    I had not been particularly enjoying the way 6

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  writing, and working, and meeting many people. I want to preserve it, like a ... :00. Write ’til noon, or 1; definitely not after 2. After that, I’ll head to ... work quietly. There are books along the walls, most of them higher than

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not ... involved cleaning glassware. Washing dishes is not a job for an undergraduate ... you for your work). More importantly for me, labs at MIT are more likely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  out the pitfalls of others. It seems like working with other people ... project you're working on through this program"]UROP[/annotation] meetings ... work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  caregivers and quality care for elders". Plus, apparently our work will be ... 've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal look into the work I'm doing, because as a UROP, I sometimes just get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  key components to any good game. You need not excel in all areas, but ... helps you see what works well/doesn't for games like [annotation note ... note="While not at strategically deep as chess or other card games

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  It's my junior year, and I am busy working on graduation requirements ... that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... of a second-- when things feel right. When I'm not stressing about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  school—specifically most of TMG's projects—so being able to work inside it this summer is living a fangirl's dream. I'm working with a TMG ... it's kind of like I'm working with someone my age.) The 3D model is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  of ordering food or just not eating sometimes (~7 hrs/week) Working ... spend more time than the average MIT student working on things, so it ... decided to work on an [annotation note="In a world where I passed 6.00, I am

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  not have to work while they were here for the weekend! As of last week ... not alone in feeling this. It never truly hit my until just a few weeks ... , but I definitely did not share that sentiment. It was like I was back

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  . Work smarter, not harder, but keep working nonetheless. IHTFP. ... overlook that I'm not a unique case. Nearly everyone else at MIT feels hosed and struggles as much as, if not more than I do, even if they don't look

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  to maneuver his phone and did not need a giant robot arm to do it for ... tripods are not meant to be pushed around. we started looking into ways to mount something to our client's wheelchair—mounting something was not

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  Engineering major, I learn how to work with others who may or may not share my ... because you could always argue that you’re not done studying. Fortunately ... , we’re working on an individual paper about an organization of our

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... to the form didn't work. For anyone. No big deal so far. No one ... 't feel like working right now). And so it continued, the messages getting

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  , film editing, production, and post-production. It's amazing because not ... class, we've been divided into groups to work on a film project that will ... -and-white treasure, works in my collection of favorites are prime examples of

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  be mad blog coverage of CPW over the next few days, so fear not. And ... in the classroom, that's not true. I think probably one of the biggest ... share this community with. Apart from the fact that working with others

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007