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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I'm beginning to build a fundamental understanding of the way the universe works

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and ... finish line wins as usual. More on that in my next entry. I promised last ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... mom asked, "So, my kid is coming to EC in less than two weeks (EEEEEK) -- and in fact he'll be temped on your hall. He's coming with Mom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to

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

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  , the biggest music festival in Denmark dedicated to metal. Tickets have been sold out since before the pandemic, but volunteers could get in free ... the first night.     While waiting in line, my friend and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  -Boson particle, and whether or not the universe will eventually cave in on itself ... In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... Cartesian vectors, except in polar coordinates, so there's a vector pointing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  “the other school in Cambridge” as “Harvard University.” Self ... slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... jamming out loudly in our Haus courtyard, it’s the easiest (and usually most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  having posted anything substantial in something like seven months. I kept ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... and Cognitive Sciences. Having lost interest in economics, I figured I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  in time. Somewhere between Central Square and Harvard, the train sat still in the tunnel for five minutes. So, when it finally pulled into Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled up in a remote New Hampshire cabin with 40-ish people from MIT and ... Management), an intense four-day course for students in the Gordon

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... . Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and ... with my friend (who goes to Brown University) as all the cars began to ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011