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• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  'll be posting about the experience! (In the meantime, feel free to leave a ... in biomedical engineering. A former finalist in the Intel Talent Search, she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  in the program. You can find a lot more information about that at ... . Cadets may also get the chance to ride in a fighter jet (typically an F-15 ... faces. Thanks to MIT and other donors, they spent a week in Israel hiking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold ... . Hasbro is AWESOME! I mean, let's face it, I work in a toy factory. Anywho

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  item. I was determined not to use Google Translate, in part because my ... talking in Spanish anyway. She was a lost tourist who wanted to get to the ... -as-utility: I can Uber my friend home, use Google Translate to have a real and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... while and i'm really excited to finally be in it. i was a bit irritated by ... in this class will help me come up with a topic that i'm willing to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  professor. As a result, I wasn’t able to present the material in a way that ... thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  't believe it's happening, sometimes, now. When we returned to East Campus in a ... is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  in a STEM field, I could find my place at MIT—I did enjoy learning STEM ... Hi Everyone! In my previous post, I announced a blogger AMA on ... , so it's important for you all to take the time to find out what MIT can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  and experienced entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors. VMS uses a team mentoring approach with groups of three to four mentors sitting with the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day-to
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of ... lamentable theft of our student-given right to a winter/summer vacation, during ... also, half of the book is a jarring account of a girl's attempts to learn

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  use this "not and" door to do... well, a lot of things. Like adding ... there and do nothing. But in a few rocks, you can get those forces to ... definitely in the no-no set of words. Putting it all together To make a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... happy with it though. I want to try and squeeze in a language in there ... I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... ,[/annotation] but struggled for a month or two to find out why. Apparently this issue ... full circle since my experience as a finalist — in addition to being on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather forecasted heavy rain and a thunderstorm starting around noon, in which case

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  you submit this list to MIT, where a computer puts everyone in a dorm using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their ... of desired roommates, likes and dislikes, et cetera - to put you in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... , making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester ... procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... a little bit, at least in my mind. It was nice to know that I had been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018