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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  , treason, hang her at dawn, all that. Let's just blame it on the weird dreams ... something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April ... just how this double major thing really works - THE HARD WAY!") Last week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  this a 9-unit class? How does it compare to 10.302 [a 12-unit class ... see him in the "Valjeans of the World" medley at the end. It always ... worried about. It was a 68. ...out of 200. Speaking of things that have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  It's been about ten days since I came home from MIT after the great ... felt like the longest week ever. I think it's mostly because we've been ... us occupied during a regular MIT day. Or, it's just what Petey said

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies ... of questions because I either know the answer or know how to find it ... obsession with getting it all exactly right. "Anna," Dumbledore said, "Let me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  pick. It makes me feel so giddy inside. For so long I’d used the juice to ... ’ll thank me for it. Box Grater You should already have this. How are you ... one of these for a long time. I’m sure you can imagine how hard pouring

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  puzzles, this one comes with no instructions, no hints, no introduction. It does, however, come with a title: "Cookie Monster." The answer, by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  long time. It is located in the basement of Walker Memorial, MIT ... . It was kind of shocking to me just how easy it was to get on air. My ... radio station, WMBR. It was a completely spontaneous decision; I had never

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  your choice (anything is fine as long as it has an important component ... .2540) because it was one of the few mit courses offered this semester that felt ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter ... fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees ... weather patterns, until this fall. Maybe it’s because this is only the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  my spine. Another deep breath. And it was done. Greg explained how to ... the morning. The worst was that they matched: how nice that pearl stud ... needle missed my ear completely? I’d endure an IAP-long struggle recovering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  it smoother (I...need to start doing this because it takes me so long ... wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don ... of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  , and stick it out until the next long break. I can make it if I just ... this weekend. … Wait… how had that many hours gone by? It felt like time ... exhausted. tick Have I done anything worthwhile here? It feels like I haven

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• 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 / 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.