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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  her email (I've been taking a godawful long time to respond to emails ... interviewed. It's not true that only the EECS department allows MIT students to ... really don't like "inbreeding", but others are very enthusiastic about it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME.  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  collected periodically and we will be evaluated on how well we have used it ... graded first paper: Experiments in X-Ray Physics. It was way too long. It ... trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on the papasan and catch up on some reading. This weekend, I got so caught ... -like ability to leap through puddles while performing his hit song, "It's Raining

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  . Janice: I know it's been months since we've last talked, but now that you've been here for more than a month, I wanted to check in and find out how you're doing. CJ: It's been great! I like the company so far. Janice

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  comprehensive view of everything in my room, but it's cool to see how some things ... blogger as a sophomore has its perks. These freshman-year thoughts just sat ... a snazzy little #tbt series. It's always strange to look back upon

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. …but I’m not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... halfway through term, and it feels like I just got here a week or two ago. Time flies here like I'd never fathomed -- before you know it, the day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... , Martin Trust Center, MIT $100K, Startlabs, Sloan, do.it@MIT, E-Club, Sloan ... any questions they had. It was a great experience. Towards the start

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  blogs on MARC, it's MIT's Microsystems Annual Research Conference where we ... my research supervisor (Hans), I didn’t know how to ski, so I ended up ... they’re similar to ice skating where you push to the side, but it was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... , and one inedible snack later, the plane began its descent. Lower, lower ... the tarmac, or…or it's too crowded. I'm sure the pilot will explain to

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

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  , both of which were yesterday. It’s funny how slowly three hours passes by ... – good work, the kind where I do it and then I’m like, “Whoa! I know stuff!” – in the past month, but as a result, my desk at home has suffered. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  project, so it does not look as good as it did in the paper we based the ... with job applications. Looking back, it was definitely the right decision ... place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  do, and how those projects help the world, but what it's actually like ... could encourage more UK participants, because let's be real - it ... members across the Atlantic!" More about this Google program: it's called

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in ... in MIT’s ethics- sounds like an obvious question, but I think it’s

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to ... jargon has stayed constant - I wonder how long we have 'tooled'? Is the ... comments and questions that I've received. I like it when you guys post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  it took me a long time to realize that a lot of these problems run in ... For as long as I can remember, the world has been a scary, anxiety ridden place. As a child I was always too afraid to go outside when it was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  making any of that happen because it was something that future me would ... Metcalfe's Law. Our idea ended up failing, but it was still my first real ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT ... is anything like mine, it's got a pretty simple design. There's a birthstone with my high school's name winding around it on the front, my class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  about what MIT, and more importantly its people, has taught me, and what ... tell you about God." I was confused then, but I understand it now ... break it up into chunks, with this one being narratively unstructured and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019