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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  , how the heck does one actually go about doing this? To my luck, the ... Nitrogen to see how this alters the interactions of the sheet molecule with ... actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out ... about 2016, then you probably know someone who is. Maybe you want to understand why they're upset, or maybe you just don't understand how their

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... essentials for you the student to pick up at the store through Pack & Hold ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  wanted to get into it, too, but honestly wasn’t sure how much time I’d have ... throughout the week. And you have no idea how much MIT students look forward to ... food they were having. She didn’t have to cook for like, 2 solid weeks

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog ... I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... opportunity cost. Everything you decide to do will keep you from doing something

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  /when I turn 80, how much money would I give up to have the memories and ... ? Honestly, probably at least $2,000. How much to have dragged 24 pumpkins through the streets of Boston? Maybe $300. How much to have investigated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  To Get Around MIT Making illustrations for the next How To Get Around MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... been revealed to us so far (mostly from watching out-of-context trailer ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  learned how to collect oral histories (read: interviews), access the MIT ... was from an interview my group did, about how water wars used to take ... fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess ... relationship ends, you tend to look back on your experience and think about the ... love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  ? how to design human interactions with technical systems? the electoral ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research opportunities. The goal of the event was to help survey the kind of work done at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak ... literally freezing. I took the T to Kendall, and after exiting the station, I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... principles to do slightly different things. I really like learning about how ... we're donating 50% of the profits to Doctors Without Borders. Is this

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  it now. 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms How to write good code, and ... , suspiciously asking the class to introduce itself and not talking about protein ... hope that biochemistry was that trendy now. The class turned to me. “Hi

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers ... thing. Many students emphasized how they were able to do deeper projects ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you ... nose is running, or your leg's going to fall off, don't expect any

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA ... I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... acceptable). CDs will be forwarded on to the music department for evaluation. Your musical talents are something unique that you bring to this process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  wandering around the new lab space and exclaiming to myself about how ... 'll write that entry soon, I promise. Just as soon as I figure out how to ... means that I get to wander around and run errands and do fun stuff (like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  from top.roommate?i have few questions- 1.how many students(UG) share a ... allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005