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• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  Toast once said 'For the first time I genuinely comprehend that there is ... ) is the value of time. In high school I thought I was learning this ... think it is a lesson that many of the people who get admitted to MIT would

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the ... sailor” (Franklin Roosevelt), and “the most effective way to do it, is to ... against that wall and take a nap, which is me all the time, but “people

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  for her. Since the breakup, I've felt like things are just happening to ... incredibly at peace, for the first time in a long, long time. Even though my ... single care in the world. I think for the past month and a half I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... Thursdays are almost completely empty. My p-sets are due Friday. For the first ... I had accomplished much during the week. I did feel burned out. MIT is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really ... for not finishing projects. Post-sophomore year, I spent the summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... , started and finished an entire novel finally visited pika for the first ... - sunburn thing gone sailing for the first time (sailing and learning to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... through it myself, but the basic idea is that your advising group lives in

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  the coast with balloon cameras for months -- or as long as it takes for ... How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... selfish when the stuff that he studies is so pure that it only has ... that you would do it for free, then you've hit the jackpot. Speaking of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... the US for all but two weeks. I did say I was taking it slow. But what

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  available and stored wind power for their locomotion. For the past 20 years ... "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  addition, for non-native English speakers, we strongly recommend taking the ... MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... Boston was. Well, obviously, the answer to that is "visit MIT," so we took ... , the Green Building is the tallest building that will ever be built in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Ambreen wrote: "What is the rationale behind question 'what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT ... wrote: "I think I'll ask the admissions office to consider me for

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• 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 ... donating materials for the plane. It actually turned out (because they are ... who was very interested is the CEO of a company which designs unmanned

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... must have heard her whisper “the sky is the limit” in my ear thousands of ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... the school year is over! Blog once a week. This is a crazy goal, but I ... official college soccer game, my time with the team is not over yet. We have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  ? The following kind of chart is common to relate all the variables for ... ="Intro to Urban Design and Developement. the eagle-eyed will notice this is not the original 11.041 I signed up for."]11.001[/annotation] project

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025