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• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There ... 2 summers in Boston when I was in high school and they were so fun ... the inner workings of a company I have friends working all around the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  middle school students. I had a lot of fun planning the class with Katie ... ceremony for the School of Science. I ran into my 8.04 professors there ... while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... been playing it religiously. I have at least 3 separate groups of people that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  hand size. you can have more than seven cards but at the end of a turn ... 's fine. well, depending on what your view is of "much", this isn't true. i ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... January. Some were finishing of UPOP seminars. Some had internship

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... said something vague like “graduate school” because really I want to be

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

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  those of you who are in high school. Want something? Go get it. You don ...       On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  ? Well, I have this folder on my desktop full of pictures and half written ... from MIT and immediately went back to my old summer job from high school ... it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  : https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... we are trying to integrate VR tech into high school classrooms. In this ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then ... than just an aesthetic wrapper, but rather as the core of a product that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  of time in my room working on psets and studying for all my classes :P But I figured that all of you would still enjoy reading about my classes ... of moving objects. Rolling, oscillating, and spinning. You name a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  year. Your updates: We've been getting email updates from some of ... Midyear Report is an online form that is required of all students, and is to ... Secondary School Reports and Transcripts. Please be patient. If the tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  Late last week one of the bloggers was talking about her spring break plans. They were all very exciting, with lots of travel and warm weather ... of my friends here in the office is Mikey Yang. Mikey is an MIT alumnus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  school here, know what it was like and what kind of people and ... The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... repeat of what you wrote in your application. It will mention some of those

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  -hi-uh" -- Adam always makes fun of my *nonexistent* accent after I've been at home ... trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose ... night was the annual MIT Club of Central Ohio holiday get-together, where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  changes to undergraduate life. Having come out of high school with ... were that I went to school with. That year, with the announcement of the ... small island of paper known as problem sets, tests, term papers, etc I

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student receives a stack of flyers and documents and charts and posters as soon as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020