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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  connections, even as a freshman. For those of you coming here in the fall, be ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a ... today, we had to hold mock interviews with a classroom camarade on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  , one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab. A UROP! That I was under-qualified for? Let's see the relevant skills ... Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  chose to learn for the maker space. Just for reference, I was doing the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I ... students after the [annotation note="this was a scam, it was 10 days long

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... examples: the "Bicilavadora" team, for their pedal-powered washing machine which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... experience, including a summer finding candidate genes for alcoholism at the ... applying to my programs. (I got a better score on the GRE than I did on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , at least) had been out of the spotlight for a few years? Was it ... tribute scheduled for Friday. Today, spending a few hours in the car, I ... post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  history was a real passion for me, I'll always be able to do it on the side ... you demonstrate competence in a foreign language. For example, the ... (serving as the '09-'10 president for the group) - again, a very "humanities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard look at many issues concerning the US and the world today and observe a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film ... ’m not the biggest Marvel fan, but I still know a few things about what has ... operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... the zoo. I get lost a lot.) If there's anything you need for your dorm ... Memorial Drive, then keep going west for about a mile). Haymarket is the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  ) A dock for the pen 4) Headphones You'll notice that the pen has a ... without having to recharge the battery. It'll last for a day and will charge ... back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  busy to help the person beside us in a pset that dragged on for too long ... Seeing all the parents converge on MIT campus for Family Weekend ... who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as ... five-and-a-half grenades, I puzzled over the indubitably intricate logic of the BPAFOSIPIDC: did he think I should become a licensed driver in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  there was a preview button. For all the inconveniences of the analog ... shake your head too hard.) For the past two years that I’ve owned a DSLR ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  even force the Pulitzer committee to start a new Pulitzer category for ... . Yesterday, after a piano lab class in which I realized for the first time that ... he will probably read this. One of the hardships of being a celebrity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  students—current and alumni—as they explore and prepare for careers. Whether you are planning for a career, searching for an internship or job, or ... employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  , the commotion was a welcome change and a nice bend toward normalcy for a ... ate for left overs the next night. Then Wednesday was a big day because ... piece of aluminum foil covering the lens which made for actually a pretty

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  we're getting a spiffy new one at the new building. Whatever.) So I ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... couldn't help but chuckle when I picked up the notes outlining the topics

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  . There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was ... and said "Look! Susan Hockfield! I'll totally hug her for a dollar." I ... sniped from across the street? I stood there, looking at her, waiting for

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008