Search

Search Results

• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... I’d been getting, I got a cold from the first to third week of October

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  the trip upstairs to the admissions officers. When we get them, the ... of hard work by the records office staff to get it that way. Admissions Officers get locked in a dungeon and cannot come out until all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed ... - I've been sworn to secrecy!) and I find working in the lab to be one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  'll probably be ready to be a real person in a year. Many other nerds seem to ... any sane person to keep track of. In Jackson's own words ... doing that will make it easier for you to get jobs." 6.854 - Advanced

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... MIT students here in rainy Harrisburg, PA), so I'm going to hold off on ... still wasn't enough to earn me my favorite grade in the class: an A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3 ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... decided to work on an [annotation note="In a world where I passed 6.00, I am

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a ... "punt" is to put work aside in favor of doing something fun - or more ... (like all MIT freshmen are) to be super hardk0re. In fact, he's SO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  the first problem set than I ever expected to learn in two weeks. This ... jobs: in addition to my UROP and blogging I am now also a professional ... on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... so good that it squirted me in the eye," he says. He loves talking to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... Game is a revolutionary breakthrough in admissions technology. Designed ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  are getting involved). In my time with the team, I've learned so much ... makers of Guitar Hero, to Terrafugia, who are in the process of making ... I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  getting to relax for the first time in a long while, with college ... Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco in December 2019. I was there to ... museums that weekend, it was great. (not that there's much else to do in DC

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  life felt back then.   I like to think about it in terms of ... blossoming grief in my chest had worn off, [/annotation]I began to focus on the ... . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  ) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in a textbook we're all forced to read for class, were in fact ... . In the eighth grade, while we were all fracturing off to different high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in ... time in which to draw on unexpired inspiration). There are incredible ... emergent forms of tactical urbanism can respond to alterations in the nature

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Little by DBC Pierre. In this entry, I thought I'd prove to you that MIT ... this book. Roth can really write, and I want to get acquainted with some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005