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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty ... . Personally, most of the time I prefer to have a carefree weekend rather than a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  . And now some Q&A, ranging from somewhat inane to completely relevant ... card with a very nice amount of Tech Cash on it to spend on food ... . AND you also get to take the swim test early and take a PE (there was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind ... , I would trudge back to campus afterwards for a night exam or office

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... . My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... I'd be a huge, hypocritical, condescending jerk if I were to tell you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... you to via email. For a data nerd like me, this is basically the best ... will get a lot cooler to play with as time goes on. Some of my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... places, and i was too tired to look for more options: a large quant ... attempting ai research seriously, and G seemed like a good way to try that out

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one ... able to learn something new about you, then you've written a great ... decide what to write about, pretend a friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons ... the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red velvet cookie dough instead of making pies. I took a trip to Target, which

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  briefly during the train’s designated “smoke break.” It was great to see a ... on my poetry. I think that, once I get back to a real laptop, I will be able to compile all of these changes and have a reasonable draft of most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... dinner, and take a train to Princeton. As we arrive at Princeton, one of my ... things in his room, we head to a math lounge in one of their buildings that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... high school. I went to an IB school, so I had to write a 4,000 word ... happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... 's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  ) until she meets a guy (or a recipe) who opens her eyes (to the miracle ... Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... semester to propose a drug/device to investigate/treat biological systems

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a ... to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... . I had a lot of stuff to pack. Go figure. You accumulate a lot of stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... [annotation note="which definitely varies from class to class! There were only a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can ... "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006