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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my ... mingle. In this world, anyway, it seems like a minor worry.  As of now, I ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... in the computer industry, comes a whole new level of strangeness ... Mirabelle all of the material possessions she could dream of. Jeremy lives in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  like basically ending and I can just become *one with the nature* here in ... FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  . That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you ... of my friends died in a car accident. I remember how my class came ... ... I read a ton of Shakespeare in high school and college and hated most

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  (Canada/USA Mathcamp) in Portland, Oregon. I'll also be taking advantage of ... stack of books in 4 languages (sorry, German, I forgot you). I wish I ... brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life ... , which will continue through the show. I hope you can join us! Paul and

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... , so I eventually gave up and got down on one knee in front of a few ... aisle. It was the best day of my life. I love being in love, and I loved

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are ... in the neighborhood, I can speak with some certainty that he is not ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  textiles! I kind of wish I had put more effort into my projects in this ... result I can't say I'm very proud of everything I made (some of it still ... smearing pastel across newsprint, which is, I think, the soul of art in the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  classes too. I want to learn as much as I can in as little a time frame as ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... . That'd be me, I'm the boy, and I'm used to eating massive amounts of food

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... . When we got there, the first thing I noticed was that there were a lot of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  . In the last week of January, I visited my younger brother in Los ... obstacles in my life are not so insurmountable that I can’t defeat them alone ... Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  has officially been two months since I arrived in Italy, and I must say ... month or so in Rome, I was in my “tentative” phase where I ... bus stop when I arrived in the morning (which I found slightly odd

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... others. The talk by Jim Ross fits into the category of speakers I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in ... Scorcese's "Taxi Driver." I'm a member of LSC because I love movies, and I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving ... of ice. I didn’t bring ice skates, but Mitch let me borrow his and it ... all around!!) and I made a bunch of s’mores for people. Overall, the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  , one or two of these extras can help you in providing us with greater ... I've been getting a lot of questions about supplemental material. None of the below is required or even expected. In general, you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  . See, I used to run. (Used to.) It was back in my freshman year of high ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years ... I had finished watching Chariots of Fire one night at 2 a.m. I told

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012