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• 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 / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... inspired by the Rome Pantheon and incorporated that in their design.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... what the message in the email said. And I wasn’t lying when I thought ... transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• 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 / 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 / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• 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 / 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 / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut back in March. The drive west gave me a lot of nostalgia. In junior high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  personal and interpersonal. wholly submerged in the myriad of things going on ... [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for the past month    so. in the past four-ish weeks, instead of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  forth between lab, eating lunch in 5 mins, barely making it to the dining ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... outside and realized that it was unexpectedly cold. In retrospect, I should

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

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  subject offered for the first time in the CMS department! Allan is taking it ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... writing this to share all the awesome ways that we have gotten involved in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018