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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold ... [/annotation]. I couldn’t possibly do that! Damaging the scarves in any way was out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ... in on her with this sort of cock-eyed, confused look.   She didn ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  garnet unfuses to ruby and sapphire in steven universe, how they were a ... orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video ... in my case is my mentor, since my team's manager works in cambridge. my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... than any other DIII university. We call ourselves the Engineers. Our ... be honest, from the outside looking in, it may appear strange that MIT

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Mikey since last year's waitlist decisions were posted in May?!" Well ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... memories of two years ago. I remembered sitting in their shoes, feeling

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... or coordinating one of the most ambitious projects in recent history ... Mere Christianity was influential in Collins's conversion from atheism

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... in college, probably around sophomore year. Why? Because medical ... major in chemistry or biology, most of these classes will overlap with

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed “Shakespeare.” The book was about astronomy research at an observatory in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Taco Bell Architecture University in Palo Alto. She was describing a very ... -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high ... (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  offers seminars, there are fewer choices available than for those in ... in her last post as an undergrad, "Take your living group selection seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  D programs in the sciences offer a master's only as a booby prize for students ... annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS North's Footloose this week. He rocked in the show (with some crazy solos

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... uncertain. recently, it has been hard to see the good in the world. recently

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even in the slightest because that will Interrupt My Rhythm and Ruin ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... stuck in place by commuter traffic and people rushed across the street as ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  . Matt '11, another GEL, was featured in the winter 2011 issue of MIT ... lounge, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm stopped by to comfort me. “Don ... of laughter and sympathetic looks. MIT does the best job in the world

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  : In no particular order: Don't worry. We have your mail. We've been ... igloo of them and am posting from inside it right now in fact. This ... should be keeping the Midyear Report in the back of your mind. All Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011