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• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or ... to display two textbook PDF pages side-by-side, and has a battery life

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  5!) but also managed to find time to have a UROP, participate in the ... to do a great job at their internship, but *sometimes* they lack the ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  writer, but also a well-rounded student. He’s also known to be an ... from Weinerschitzel (or if I got a long break to travel the extra block ... family then shipped themselves to the extremely hot and conservative

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... into my gears of Decision Making. A friend, desperate to see each and ... to do, I went with her on a whim to what became the source of my wrench

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  - that somehow it's a victory for every human being. So, I managed to ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... departments place a strong emphasis on teaching students how to think about ... , if you want to be a good scientist or engineer, it's important to learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a Pirate Now just in case I don't get a real mit degree lmao

  

  prestigious MIT PE programs, you might be aware of something called a Pirate Certificate. It looks like this.   I'm showing it to you because you ... actually says GPRs.), but also I took a SCUBA class. I'm like an advanced

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  favorite photo ever, taken in Israel by a family friend. The glass of the ... back of a shelving unit I brought with me to MIT but never actually ... to collapse. Probably as a result, the top half of the shelving unit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to ... world. It was awesome. Then I headed over to SpookySkate, which is a ... was unable to do a halfway decent cartwheel under normal conditions and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  visiting MIT (more on that in a sec), you'd probably find me poring over some ... weeks before I shipped out to Harvard, I was participating in the National ... Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of ... Human Rights”"]21A.508 readings,[/annotation] write response, and find a ... , storyboard, and make a sound list for a scene in 4.354. To be done by Tuesday

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... ... Went to Montreal for a weekend to visit friends at McGill University

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  planning a trip to see the physical sites I grew up visiting daily – my ... could be a part of this effort as a financial aid guy; I wanted to share ... wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  all places, to find a cultural identity, and a cultural heritage. It ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... mean to me. I was always sort of a rootless kid. I'm a jumble of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... week to do a pset (or two weeks, in classes like 7.01x (Intro Bio)). But ... ) to be at the borderline between a B and a C. Course policies really

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  hardcore organic synthesis to building a giant cardboard box in which to ship ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... – amounting to ~10 hrs/wk of teaching.   Wait, are you a physics ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014