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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in time you'll have a timeline snapshot of me! This is an experiment, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a ... 've never seen a martin scorsese film"]Martin Scorsese[/annotation], who is ... in [annotation note="do kids these days even know what shark tale is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... fide graduate, Berry remains active in the MIT community. He is on MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , after all, loves biology. Piper is looking for a summer UROP in bio ... thing about being in a major that is both interesting in itself and widely ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "IS MY LIFE RUINED?" and his answer was, in a nutshell, "no. don't let ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the Hofbräuhaus, which is probably a little like Durgin Park in Boston ... Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college ... . I ended up getting a PhD in computer science after a few post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  published a paper in Science, one in Neuron, and one in Cell Reports. So I am ... , at work? And the answer is ARE YOU JOKING? He’s always been a model ... and fly one of every ship in Wookieepedia. Step one, obviously, is to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... four dimensions to people in a comedy special is exceptional, and I ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  -250, taking Linear Algebra, which is the unit distribution: 4 hours in class per ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  serious companies) while interning at a startup. Interning in SF is a sort ... passing through, a little trail of condensation forms in its wake. This is ... . Anyway, I've been living in Fran Sancisco this summer with (a sizable crew

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to ... the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... for landing in chummy situations with a wide variety of living groups. A

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  program in which the Earth System is used as a context for the first-year core subjects in math, physics, chemistry and biology. It is a small ... It was 86 degrees F in Boston on Wednesday! A blooming tree in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  myself in math, but I think I now deserve a good night's rest. After all ... lower than official MIT housing. If you already live in a dorm, chances ... get to come back a couple weeks early in the fall for free, in exchange

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  , anyway. The interview is simply a way for you to tell us in person. Some ... 's been a student there. College admissions is all about the "match" and ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon ... they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... second round of waitlist admissions. All of this is a standard part of the ... other. It is in your best interest to complete your financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011