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• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... my new phone everything was very small and hard to tap. I was way past

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

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... worthless. =( at the end of question 2. (To be fair, I wrote this at like 3 AM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  awesome UROP at the Page lab, and some of the rest volunteering as a brother ... everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... few strong beliefs about [annotation note="They believed it started at 1 instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which ... collection of source texts. Some of my favorites:   Crying is great ... not, @horse_ebooks helped inspire an entire genre of surrealist _ebooks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  conversations at MIT but still love every minute of it." Huh. This is really ... at IS&T, I silently pray that the person on the other end of the ... course.) I'm getting a little tired of every single person I run into at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of ... .906 (linguistic study of bilingualism). at the end of last semester, when i first

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... moment of failure and that I continued to exist after it, because the world

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - so far, at least): 6.046: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - this ... 9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... parts of the Boston area I *still* haven't seen: Museum of Fine Arts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  :00 Dinner at a Local Restaurant with a selected group of students. Let me ... a new line of plush toys that seek to increase understanding of ... me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... now made it's way into my blog, like several other songs I can think of. Anyway. Life at MIT is moving right along at its usual breakneck pace, but

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  -planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years ... yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of ... at the last two months of material. Welp. Many times in high school

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  poverty. Yeah. So this conference - lots of people at MIT this year have ... don't get lost and stuff. Also, I'll be spending a lot of time at one ... playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US ... several types of coins in both currencies, in case the toll booth at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... concern themselves with work at the molecular level--characterizing a new ... of a ceramic plasma coating implement that operates at 10,000 K with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  greeted us at the front of the lecture hall: Professor Buchwald dressed ... on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... phone when I discovered a picture of 6 or 7 year old me dressed up as a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  's frosh."]move[/annotation]at the end of the year. And now in sophomore year ... of myself as "being in Boston" when I'm at MIT; now, I'm just "being ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  could be good at one of them. And I don't know if I'll ever be good at ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020