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  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT. I arrived at MIT bushy tailed and bright eyed at the prospect of ... Lab at MIT's Center for Cancer Research studying the delivery of small ... would encourage all of you to have at least one UROP over the course of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of ... paradoxes at the intersection of math, music, and art, and their implications ... Summer 2015, I’ll think about the snapping turtle at Walden, the peak of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  because of last year's internship at PlayStation, I have still not acquired ... , but I'm awful at technical interviews and haven't gotten the hang of ... , and I'm sort of stalled at the confluence of all three of these rivers

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  has gathered at the front of the room to talk with the speaker and each ... universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  good hopes and  Imaginations of the universe,  Digits, letters, and ... the STEMs… I’m from a piece of each of us at MIT, and beyond this ... for sure. But at least, I’ve now got a new hypothesis:  Maybe the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  comprehensive list, but there should be at least one useful tip. Think of this ... get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... resources MIT offers didn't just come out of thin air; they're there for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  A new and different episode of ZigZag, MIT's video podcast, is up ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of ... below or at the ZigZag comments box. The idea for this episode actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  at you. Pursuing the simple ideal of being a good student forced me to ... the implications of the affordable care act and universal health care in ... with in this project. It even created a whole new side of the insurance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  perks up with just the slightest amount of folding at the end: [video ... though (after witnessing the sad drooping of my slice) and offered to trade ... ! Possibly one of the best slices of pizza I've eaten while at MIT. Unlike

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  dinner at one of Boston's yummy Russian-Armenian restaurants, Cafe Levonya ... 's house and ending at the previously mentioned Eric's house. Did any of you ... neighborhood where you'll find CMU and the University of Pittsburgh, is actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  waitlist? We offered 499 applicants -- approximately 4% of applicants -- a ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... its instructors were wonderful at supporting everyone with all levels of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  bring new challenges everyday. At the very least, I had a run down of ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of ... the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  workers at spas he frequented--leans into the hypersexualization of Asian ... little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... witnessed firsthand the deadly consequences of protest. Last summer, I was at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  something productive at work. As fun as being in a new place, surviving on ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX ... offer, instead of focusing on what it requires you to give. When I was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  .com that offered $20,000 worth of design, engineering, marketing, and ... As of exactly one year ago, toys have completely taken over my life ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  fresh minds of grad students naturally come up with new ideas that ... ("Hitting the slopes at MARC") looks the coolest, but #2 ("SEM photo of ... for spectroscopy and relaxometry of moving fluids": A new process for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... bonuses ((I want to say boni)): one of my friends (who I first met at CPW

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  , tutorials, and of course photography), so I will probably blog about that at ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT ... community through his annual MIT Arts Party: ABOVE: Carla Sehbani (Office of

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010