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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  peer-reviewed journals. MIT has a program dedicated to giving you the opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  find a jug of whole milk next to the half-and-half. Though I'm sure it ... slowing him down a whole lot. Skate skis are a lot easier to learn since ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... UROP is to find labs whose work you're interested in, and then directly ... , or 20, or maybe 10.  And the best way to know if you're interested in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was getting a tuberculosis skin test, which I needed in order to ... . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  . In this process, I also had to find a professor to be an advisor for ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... -emailing people in the math department to see if a class like this could be offered

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually ... project organizers really brought in the community to take part in building

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on campus, I'm glad I got a chance to enjoy the snow this season.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front ... exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  need to think about what each word means, and how to arrange them in a ... most important unsolved problem in the field. I want to close with a ... a software engineering internship to learn software engineering? Well

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... taking advantage of the fact that tumor cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme, a ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  .191 Independent Study in Maya Generative Tools I really wanted to take a class this ... Course 4, all you need to do is find a supervisor for your study, and then ... to decide whether to stay in our current major, 21E Humanities and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  you might not be able to tell.) Instead of scrambling to find a research ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  still able to achieve what he's capable of in the classroom." Fannin is a ... before leaving for the Italy Milan Mission. A call to serve in the Italy ... finale and asked if he could have some time to speak in a postgame meeting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  window (or at my phone). I hope you, too, are able to take a break in ... course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  In my New Year's Resolutions post, I wanted to make a promise to blog ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to ... social. This is something I really wanted to do a lot more in second

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  center. Boyce sees finding the cure to cancer as a matter of being able to ... ’s brilliant to just stand in front of it and look up and take it in. I’m a ... ’s always a lot of light coming in, and if I want to space out for a little

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  the image of a White, Suburban Woman? What does one expect to find or ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... trying and failing to make change in their own lives, and I doubted an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  opportunities. Career Fair If I'm being honest, not a lot of undergrads seem to ... stuff, in which you can carry all your other free stuff. In a related ... lab after the career fair, but I saw a poster in Lobby 7 that said

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006