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

  

  printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  . See, reading is a huge part of my life. My mom used to beg me to put the ... back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... about half of them) on a slow day, I find myself puzzling the many

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a collection of almost 400 videos in its online collection (you can also find it

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  GIRs in order to graduate: a biology, a chemistry, two calculus, and two ... to pursue a career in that instead? It would have been better, then, if ... , in the sense that it didn’t used to be. screenshot taken from naubos na

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... speakers that played a recording when you stood on a circle in front of them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My ... place to find such communications. If you have in previous years ... materials to MIT, please use this address: MIT Undergraduate Admissions

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  ! ;) Diana: in the 80s i think, they used to throw a piano off the roof like ... work at Diana: it's a really nice place to work Diana: and in the ... was a proud resident. All freshmen have to live on campus, but after

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  watched Pitch Perfect, a film in which freshmen know what they want to do ... denizens gathered in the lounge to select the day’s film. “Can we watch a ... ? Just use the right hand rule to find out!!!!!!!!!” (caption and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... you guys to interview. I never used Skype in high school, but I think ... to relax in #1, it does help if you do a bit of pondering before your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a ... of light and shadow. I find a process that seems to work for me: first ... great one.” ~ Ellie to Aster Even if a bold stroke doesn't work out in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  encourage other students to work to the best of their abilities; in a sense ... lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... . (Admittedly, this is not a long list compared to the number of supervisors in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... I had gotten used to it and can now say that I have a basic idea of ... .e. Chinese characters. In fact, Korean used to be written exclusively in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  devote an entire entry to a class I'm not even in anymore: Physics ... computers are used for Facebook. We're going to ignore that data.) In the ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  running every night, and eventually was able to run 4 miles in a go. I got ... ended up writing a blog about it all, though. This summer, I wanted to ... ="and my friends and family"]myself[/annotation] that I was going to run a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... . After settling in, it feels a lot like MIT--there's so much to do in a ... pored over whatever I could find, usually defaulting to MSNBC or CNN to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  new to the field, how to use the same tools they use in a digestible ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  potential ways to solve the problems. I take a nap, and I’m in Hartford in 2 hours. I call an Uber to get to my hotel in Simsbury, a 20 minute drive ... -ice warmup. Afterwards, I take a nap in the rink’s cafe, and it’s time to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... might try to make this a habit in the future. 12:00 p.m. I have leftover ... I’ve been too hosed to write a post that requires beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025