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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’m bored”), or why it is you’re interested in a particular area of research ... Harvard, and have no idea what a UROP even is." My response, in sum ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase, “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  'm now a second-year PhD student in developmental neurobiology at Harvard ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But ... , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a ... everyone. In fact, location, importantly, is not a good reason to pick a dorm

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  other words, in a world that humans have built for themselves, the roach’s ability to thrive in all its squirming, leg-wiggling glory is terrifying ... ! This is an American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana), a species of roach

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... start. But however scary that may sound, this is not a post about how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  Stuyvesant's new building. Larry, who is a practicing architect in the city ... . It was a lot of fun. Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back. The ... . Last Wednesday was a typical day: up at 5:00 am to get a workout in and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  the whites show, thinking, “A class is hard? An MIT class is hard? Who ... your wits, and in place of the solution’s space will be a black hole ... a sad story. So, a few years back, in Nigeria’s equivalent of grade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  everything in between! Here is a diagram to slightly better (but definitely not ... course 6. And in the yellow means it is unclear. With a glance at the graph ... skills would be buzzing in our heads, like on a daily. MIT is so special

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  them both in my life. (This is a nice moment but I'm going to ruin it by ... there is this life, the life without my sister. My sister died in a car ... is a gift that I can either view in one of two ways: one that I will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  ’s your orientation, in the literal sense. This is what the campus looks ... . There’s main campus, which is the pentagon in the center; most activities ... campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  Text transcript: Many times this semester, I felt disappointed in myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  or two—this is always better than being a burrito in your bed, although being a burrito in your bed is not a bad choice as well. 4) believe that ... ? what if there is too much work? what if i want to just be a crazy college

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... answer: Hacking is not a club and you will never see it listed in any

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . What is and isn't common in the lives of a MIT senior and a MIT Alum and ... time and energy of a trainee and it is very important to put them in a ... ’m soaking in being a senior at MIT and living at home.  What Is Your Favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  machines. CONS: As the subtitle suggests, the gym is a little… scrappy in ... ="102804" image2="102805" /] B: McCormick a tiny baby in the sky GOOD: The view is ... in a dedicated gym vibe keeps me locked in. The Z is also extremely

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  , home-cooked meal is a blessing. LIVING IN BOSTON!!! My sorority’s house ... a sorority? How do I sign up? When is recruitment? What’s the ... [annotation note="Like many others, I didn’t know a lot about what being in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . Affirmative action is just a way for black people to get in college easier ... experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019