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• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  undergrads at the moment. Whatever the case is, it's not the end of the world ... of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity that MIT offers to their undergrads. However, getting research faculty to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... who wouldn’t be? My usual defense in this kind of situation (aka any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  Sorry I’ve been a little MIA, folks. I am fully aware of my absence (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  don't write travel brochures.) After a brief eternity of staring at ... McDonald's where a group of high schoolers laughed at me and my intro ... On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  This past Sunday, I walked out of an early screening of Everything Everywhere All At Once hosted by MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). MIT LSC hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... movie or favorite scenes/lines. I'll post the results of the "Weekend at ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  nerdy side of things, I also joined the MIT Science Fiction Society at the ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  So, remember how back when I blogged about all of the many varied ... at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... different suite) every year so far. Not only have I painted all of these rooms

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  course of the semester, I finished it later and later. First it was done at ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... performance While writing this blog, I had a look-see at some of the goals I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  achievement of an interstate walk at some point, and New Hampshire is the ... wonderful as it can be at 11:11 AM at -1°C. The art of walking without ... easy outs until Medford – at least one hour of potential danger in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work, but also what is the point of the game if you do zero sidequests? I do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of ... remember really trying to encourage her because at the end of the day, speed ... , practically buzzing at the endless possibilities that Scratch offered, reminded

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  the ground—at home I did a good 40% of my homework and 90% of my You ... [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... stacks of packages are reaching NBA-player height, so if you've received an

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  production of a musical  I went with Silu S. ’24 to watch Six at the Emerson ... for no reason). I learned that the singularity is at the center of the ... underwatering or a mix of both.  at the beginning of this year, with some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  wedged itself at the back of my head: that I had never actually Done ... . At the end of the summer, my project wasn't really "finished" -- I ... , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  Boston to Hynes Convention Center. The vaccine clinic at Hynes is one of ... , almost, at least. It is the end of the semester as well, and the weight of ... the piece's syncopated rhythms. None of the audio of us at that moment

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  up At this point, you kind of forgot that you sent an email to your ... in mind, as opposed to emailing all three at once. And on top of that ... For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class

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

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  a half at MIT, that worked spectacularly. For most of freshman year I ... was also building up the next stage of my life at MIT. That same ... interning at my goal company in Seattle and hanging out with a bunch of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019