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• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  the classroom. It read "I am large. I contain multitudes." Every lesson ... humans and their time on this earth (it was AP Human Geography after all) and how things we considered to be brief or tiny, such as paragraphs in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  long weekend, it was very nerve racking because we really wanted to pass ... , math was by far my favorite subject. I loved how concrete it was. There ... vague and confusing. And regardless of how many TA’s explained it to me

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or break your life, will shape your next four years. How different can two ... style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  enough, you will eventually see it. [caption id="attachment_45481" align ... "] Despair...[/caption] Step 4: Wait and Hope III ... Step 5: Claim Claim it. Claim the organ. It's yours now. [caption id="attachment_45484" align

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  school EVER!" (Just kidding, but it does start each day off rather epic-ly.) It ... stuff. I haven't decided how I feel about this. Actually, things have ... lunch with a 309 classmate, talking about how awesome summer was and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  ." So how does this document, well over 200 years old, continue to shape ... legal requirement for the government to continue paying its financial ... , published this book last year. I wrote about the book when it came out last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  . You can imagine how awesome Michael Xiang, a junior in Biology with ... hormone excreted by fat cells, also known as adipocytes. It acts on muscle ... down, fats and sugar, you would expect it to be in high levels in obese

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  , and are both going to Stanford for grad school. Say it with me now: "Aww ... Pod and made it an iPod Shuffle. I really think there is a technological explanation for why he did this, but it might be that he was just bored. A

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer exchange programs?

  MIT offers a number of opportunities to study, work, research, and teach abroad.  
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly ... 't realize exactly how unprepared I was for my classes. I knew MIT was hard. I ... have to work for it. Despite that, I didn't expect to struggle this much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  summer doesn’t sing to me anymore (although I really think it does), I can ... , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  changing how we feel about something changes our intuition about it. Then you ... days, and one morning it became clear to me. As I was meditating early ... me that I should accept the job offer. After all, it was a great

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  't embarrass him by telling you all how old he is =), but I will tell you the story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... only does he admit us to MIT, he actually really cares about us after we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... long enough to practice jumps on a public session and decided to just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  not every state is equally comparable. So how can we do it? The state of ... economics does: takes some theory that we have, and tries to test it in the ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  with the structure of a UROP, here’s how it’s typically gone for me. You ... say it in response to literally anything), “how’s it going → well, it’s ... to think of how to start a conversation and keep it going. But on my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  Christopher Nolan movie ever, but knowing how volatile my friends are when it ... use of PNR in various ways, where you'll often hear phrases like "It's okay, I'll just NR it" or "Don't worry, it's PNR" or even "Do I even have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  blogged about it, but don’t tell my future employers, OK? I’ve thought long ... parents at least twice a week and take my garbage out when it got full. Ha ... attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  part of it has been learning how to be an adult and take care of myself ... enjoy it as much as I do! It has hit me that I have officially ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020