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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... a good grade in these really difficult classes.  But this leads me to my next point... Pass/No Record is NOT an excuse to get a C- in every

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a MOSFET in a first order circuit. When I got home, I still had to start ... seemed to be. Yeah, it was a day in the life of an MIT student... but it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... treadmill... You're only human after all. Eventually a routine sets in. You ... worth it. I take it all in and try to just do it. Sometimes I fail

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  authenticity as a blogger. Sometimes I find myself reopening old wounds to ... no real media person at all. Trying to be funny and stuck in a room ... cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... proteins that have particular functions in the neuromuscular junction, 2) a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  to dye a blue streak in my hair but it came out grayish-green, so i ... get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... took me this long to figure it out. y'know? i'm in my senior fall and i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... absolutely DEVOUR my way through a bag, but in order to eat green beans without crying inside I actually have to saute them in oil, on a stove, with minced

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in ... -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  approaching the issues no one has dared to approach before.  We can take a hard ... social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  similar rise in applications. This was a cause of concern to all of the ... latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  is supposed to be a new kind of reality show, I guess I shouldn't be ... tell them apart from everyone else. (More on homeschooled students in a ... rapidly! Here is a picture I took of the building, in progress, as of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In The Mail Well folks, the time has come. The letters are in the mail.

  

  to reflect the clean-shaven face, as promised (sorry mootmom, but a pact is a pact). :-) Enjoy these other pics from the day's festivities ... over. Have a great weekend everyone, and best of luck to each of you. :-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  'm sorry to say that I don't have any announcements about a decision date yet ... ! In the mean time, the Admissions committee continues to work towards ... Toronto are the only three schools to have won multiple titles in the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  Sorry I haven't updated in a while. This past week has been deathly ... doing something similar (in the "spending a lot of time on it" sense) with ... structures in my head more than I like resonance structures. But there was a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... to call the final presentations a competition, at least in the usual ... It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... , because why not! will follow a similar format to Alan's post :) poems (18 ... darte ho by Noon Meem Rashid. listen to a very beautiful reading here

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November 2. a resilient device, typically a helical

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and why I was in town -- as if following a script -- and then asked me what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  find a formalized way to get undergraduates involved in outreach. I hope ... resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... . Um. AHHHH! I freaked, ran to his office, only to learn that he was in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little ... pretty.) A big part of orgo is trying to synthesize molecules using a ... It's pretty hard to live in Boston and not get swept away by Red Sox

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007