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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... not for the lazy. So back to our hypothetical biology undergrad -->

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... reminded of my problem set for [annotation note="Introduction to Satellite ... feeling of crushing, immense gratitude for the opportunity to learn

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an ... , which I am excited for. I know it sounds like wishy-washy mysticism to be ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  , surreal moment for me, and that quote was the first thing to pop into my ... to believe you; thank you for that. I'm so happy, and proud, and ... for some reason is still reading this -- I would love to hear from you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  nothing. Paying to relax and get pampered may be on the calendar for the ... . According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  going. Over the past month I've tried to unpack for you some of our ... . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in addition to being a WWII vet, was also ordained as a nondenominational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... , continuously, for several minutes. According to some of them, people are actually ... ’t know what I want to teach for Splash, but I have some ideas… There

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  , maybe, but save the complaints for another time. To briefly nutshell ... how I’m going to keep up with everything on my plate—but, for the life ... from “decent” to “huh, that’s a little weird, but okay” and “is that even

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  roof for 24 hours to code, hack, and build. I've been blogging about Hack ... were pretty creative. For example, Nasdaq wanted students to hack ... integrate a blockchain database, I had to learn Solidity for Ethereum. It was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  profits from his NGO to fuel this expansion and establish a fund for ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set ... ’s going to sink fastest because of it?” I couldn’t argue

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... science and ambition, for me, necessarily need to be opposed? As it turns ... I had something to show for whatever research I did. In other words, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  10:30 → Wake up. Panic. No time for real breakfast. It’s too early to ... by a carefully selected playlist. I look forward to the commute for ... :00 → Second UROP meeting! Same place, different project. For this one, I get to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to celebrate today's excuse for the industry to make lots of money selling ... In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three years to attend the graduations of all of the students that I admitted to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  College. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... 's bad for my eyes and my back and my body. Coming to MIT gave me an excuse

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might ... their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... 'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get antsy, so I wanted to make a quick post and point your attention at two

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  again for a little while at night. You'd think the last place I'd want to ... cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 hours in Kendall Square. "Don't you still have that gift certificate for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  tools for users? Basically, it sounds awesome and is exposure to ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but this is the first that doesn’t seem like work. That’s not to say that I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico ... working in Mexico City, I got to go home for three weeks, the longest

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010