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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering ... What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  actually do get to practice in real situations all these skills that we ... afterward and forgetting how to quite approach it. Getting that practice is ... exactly what I joined GEL to get! Slowly but surely I’m gaining the skills

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... moving to another dorm next year. So to sum up, don't get tunnel vision ... shocked when you get there to find everything's not always puppies and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into ... really hard to get into and others less hard. For that reason, I made sure ... 't know if I would get in or not) and I applied to some places where I was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  -Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, wanted me to get a bunch of stuff done over the next term, but I didn ... another lab to get ice, rotovapped it, added aryl grignard, and began a ... Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the ... friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... have an opportunity to re-fly tomorrow for better scores. However, when we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying ... semester doesn't start until February; instead, we use January to do internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted into this crazy place, to now being a blogger, happened so quickly, I ... wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  to me like being parented by upperclassmen. The freshmen here don’t get hazed because everyone understands how rough it is to get thrown in this ... ends there as a new era starts. But what happens when you start to get

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  get freaked out by blood (thankfully, since I'm planning on going to med ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You ... saw, "Degas to Picasso: Modern Masters" just opened on January 18

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  's great to be in such a small department and get personal attention, but I ... Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  retake 006 instead of taking 6.034 since I want to get credit for 6 ... that. Pros: Get some real good honest to god design teaching. Cons ... blogposts. I'd like to take writing classes to try and get me back into the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... we prefer to get it in the mail since it is easier to read. Sylvia ... for the MIT Class of 2009. Also, we're happy to get you in contact with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman ... motivation to get ahead on my classes for the next semester. This has NEVER

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  've done a lot of work for as part of my UROP. But it's good to get a formal ... internship into a full time return offer"]*the year*[/annotation] to get an ... i was waiting for company B to get back to me"]didn't really think

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  place to get everything done on time. But even before you begin to devise ... . You don’t necessarily have to be getting straight As in all of your ... . This year, I travelled to sunny Southern California. I visited high

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... of getting in based on your test scores ... stressful week. Please don't freak out like me. Instead, you should: Get off

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  satisfying to feel like you're actually getting somewhere in accomplishing your ... .) Then I finish the lab and begin to get really sad that I have no coding ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019