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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  -semester senior with two classes and a swim test* left between her and graduation: 9.15 - Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Synaptic Transmission. This is the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  .091 (Solid-State Chemistry), though it's not recommended because the 5.11-s ... . Usually, 8.01 and 8.02 suffice. Calculus: -18.01/18.02 (which you have to ... regrettably true. Medical schools pay a lot of attention to your GPA and MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... . Specifically discussion about the reasons we picked that date and time. My favorite observation comes from optimistic-mom: 1217 and 2011 are prime

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  conference (at Hah-vahd). (I was Fiji, by the way - oh and Ahmed went too ... into the computer, and generated class schedule. (with the help of our ... and this Sunday will be the 4th class (out of 7) in the program

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  except when he throws everything out (including receipts, magazines, and ... my father has a hard time letting things go, and that the indigestion ... brought to you by the letter E! EEEE!") In a perfectly formed and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  keynote, "Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves," and talked about ... the Universe with Gravitational Waves," and discussing his work on his ... eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  . I activate Reading Mode, enter an industrious fugue state, and emerge ... , and by how many cups of coffee I could consume until it was ... applications…and I had nothing but time to read them. Scarce hours of daylight

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  thinks, and feel out the atmosphere of a different, non-NRAO institution ... shape: get a master's in Science Writing from MIT and a Ph.D. in astronomy ... unexplored intersection of science research and public outreach. Before the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and I thought it was really a good story, and maybe some of you would ... offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... , a red folder, and fifty jangling pennies was launched into the sky over Briggs Field and miraculously stayed airborne for over 6 seconds

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... ("Beethoven to Mahler", for you words people) takes up the baton and covers ... ). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  ’t—we didn’t, and I cried on the last bus ride home from States). I kayaked ... home (Boston, State College, Myrtle Beach, and Key Largo), I have a ... just as good. And I think really liking the state of my home and having a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  This past week and a half I've been slowly adjusting to life at MIT ... California and practically begging my mother to send me back to the cold ... myself busy and attempt to be an actual college student. I made a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  Intro to Solid-State Chemistry, Intro to Western Music, Calculus I, and ... the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  apologize for that in advance. --- Paul joined a fraternity, and now lives at his fraternity. Snively didn't join a fraternity, and lives at his ... 21 students (and I'm not planning on moving out anytime soon). Not to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  unnecessary (none will be offered), and that students will not be taking too ... ... and that is not trivial." According to Ben, it's got some factual errors ... sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... rather than in a central server. And it's so much more than that, but we ... roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. I've been blogging about Hack

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  as I wanted to, and I was largely unsatisfied with the posts I managed ... wasn't an announcement or a tongue-in-cheek joke, and the one before that ... about pursuing computer science and engineering in general, so I’d let out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it ... voted onto homecoming court and student government.  But it is also true

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  business they do is done through eBay - and so their storefront is mostly ... making arcade games out of cardboard. He made claw games and soccer games and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012