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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... program for freshmen at MIT. Terrascope is a freshman learning community, and there's a couple others offered for incoming freshman, including ESG

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  ; I enjoyed the lesson but didn’t see a kettle bell again for months ... play your instrument) for a few months or forever; listen to yourself ... that creating a positive feedback loop around exercise was important; I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  strawberries for a dollar each. It was a sweltering hot day, so we retreated to ... times to count. For the summer, I lived at tEp and it was a blast. In ... Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  , which form a scaffold for the receptors and their associated factors ... : "Dendrite" comes from the Greek for "tree". If you look at a live neuron in 3 ... for you to try out the squad and see if you would enjoy being a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  major who has been a campus leader at MIT for the past 4 years. In ... home for a whole summer. You have to understand that my parents didn’t go ... finances a big issue that your parents were concerned about? For me, the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  past month. i crocheted a red scarf for myself earlier this year, and my ... beginning of this semester when i kept getting mistaken for a frosh because i ... you've just found a social balance that works for you and you mind your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  . Maddie and I planned on leaving for South Station at about 11:45 PM so at ... I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on ... planet or that we were in New York City ready for a day of awesome. We

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  less accomplished that, with a few exceptions. So, "what I did for IAP ... , and scripts.mit.edu, a web hosting service for the MIT community ... least 6 hours to get it together I certainly have a lot more respect for

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the ... for a grade. Since I defined the endpoint, I could justify my workaholic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  played a similarly important role, proposed that we work on an emoji ... a description elsewhere: The Emoji Compass is an alethiometer for the ... Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  is depicted as an alien Stereo recording techniques Arranging for a ... (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  2-3 months of hard work, you will be a whiz! Also, it’s important to ... for a year (I did ballroom with the Cambridge team though!) Anyway ... my greatest passions, so I am gonna need a separate post for this but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch ... design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each ... does not have a license for Matlab! I have to use Octave! That's why my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... priority became preparing for interviews. The symposium cast a shadow from

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  cpw is pretty cool tho :D it's not perfect, but it sure is fun

  

  –you’ll have to wait for anika to share the full saga. it was a beautiful, tear ... sung? (blurred for privacy)[/caption] 9. chinatown at night boston is a ... (truly a feat for someone who is both asian and from hawaii), but mit has

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 28, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... shining, and a score to settle, it is the perfect day for soccer. We start

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... and research med schools." I feel a lot more ready for what I want to do as a result. So what might that mean for a future, perhaps hesitant

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  satirical joke, they seemed to be obsessed with him for a little while ... maximizing embarrassment or inconvenience for a victim or target, often with a ... message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  'll take." It seemed a little bold for this quiet introverted type guy. But ... .2%, giving myself minus 2 points for not being a valedictorian, another 4% for ... the above story. But lets just stay with independence for a second

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017