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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... postdoc with whom I work directly, Albert. I was still learning how to do all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  question of how to balance my passion for the science that I do and the ... I don't think this is good. But I also just don't know how to break ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be ... actually sad here.) In their honor, today I'm going to talk about one of the ... whose major function is to serve as a structural base which recruits and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  to choose. I also don't know how my timing and scheduling will work out ... tonight or how late I should stay up. I want to do more 6.08 exercises, but ... was to read about how systems connect to Internet and actually pull up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  thing atm, still trying to figure out how to take care of myself ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My ... ’t either).          It’s upsetting to walk past rooms that belonged to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good ... discovery, but they weren't easily able to explain how they figured it out ... then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  I don’t know where I’m going to be a year from now. That’s never really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of obvious that, duh, I’d be going to school next year. Maybe the only other

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls ... Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  myself. I want to say yes to social invites without fretting about how my ... ’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a nice restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . I also haven't yet figured out how to finish all my psets on time; my ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  current situation, I’ve gotten to see how our online communities have been ... like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... of that sort, but I could imagine how the start of my college life

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  how we're going to cultivate community for incoming freshmen while we ... about how we're going to take action to stop using harmful words like ... ... It's refreshing to see how much people care about building and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... blogging was not always this fancy -- I put my Course 14 skills to good use ... and sent them to Matt McGann. You know, the usual: a cappella concerts

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... 'll just have to see how it all goes. It's IAP, after all. Anything can ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  deciding what schools to apply to, how to fill out your application, and eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school ... Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005