Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

   on its neck and a plaque thanking Howe & Ser for its wonderful moving ... a giant playground for grownups where people could swing and do these ... little blue monkey holding a banana for myself. After visiting the pier

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  for project completion was a bit too ambitious and we needed to add some ... A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four-day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp

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

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  debating whether or not I should, and it wasn’t an easy decision for a few ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS-A ... for a more personal writing workshop.  Finally, taking classes outside

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  Conner for my CPW and knew I liked the people, so I went to events in a ... OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR CPW!!!! Class of '26, we cannot wait to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  am terrified for what it means to graduate with a significant other ... when I am with Raymond, and for a minute I let myself daydream and think ... the rooftops of Greece before moving into a quaint apartment with seven

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  reading, and writing for, the blogs. These categories, and tags, enable a ... and our new bloggers! We hope you'll stick around for a long time. ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  ... they're fun for me, but I don't have any true talent for them... I'm a ... great friends, and above all, she's a great match for MIT." Or something ... -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  'll wholeheartedly admit that I took a lot of pride in being an INFJ just for the sake ... working out. If I study differently for a math quiz and score higher, my ... for, and take care of, others' feelings. - Mostly Me This is a pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

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

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... this past Tuesday that I visited a daycare for the first time. I was ... break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  phone gets a signal. (T-Mobile users, I'm writing this for you.) There ... could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... year of high school stood between myself and a diploma. I wasn't accepted

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... -Sevana, a home for sexually abused teenage mothers in Sri Lanka. No amount of ... a small gesture of kindness – making jewelry for a small group

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You ... saying any of this in a disparaging way; but for some people, instant

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... shattered. In a good sense, for once. [caption id="attachment_66077" align ... be able to keep all the equipment for a little over a week and that we

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... -ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... the deadline for Early Action. Here are some things we want you to know ... this date and you will still be fine. Please allow five days for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  just under a month, there will also be an opportunity for high school ... WIth CPW 2012 just a few days away, the whole school is getting ready ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some ... . Which makes for 20 minutes of just not too much fun if you ask me. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  such opportunities are available), (c) who has been suspended (for a ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the ... to grades? For example, would a B+ in an application be viewed in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006