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  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  -campus visitors, reading your applications, and duking it out with my colleagues in ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day ... ’ve stolen from my amazing colleague Jessica is that your goal should not be

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... surprised at how routine it seemed this semester, and at how fast my class-time mindset returned. I had a fifteen-minute chat with my advisor and then left

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  visual stimulus), brain scanning, visual search, and much more. My favorite ... vision science and visualizations that my research supervisor, Zoya ... work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  that were going here. My first look into the dorms was the i3 videos ... —Senior House, East Campus, and Random. I ranked Senior House as my first choice ... reconfigured my rankings, pushing the Haus to the bottom of the list. I picked

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  The thing that happened My phone was buzzing all day Friday with ... , and others who are concerned. Even my mom texted me about it saying they ... disservice. Points like these are not my own, and they are just a fraction of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , when i was at my lowest, i sat down with one of my former advisees and ... don't sleep with my grad rat on. one reason is so that, when i get up ... slipping it on reminds me to be my best person: the most intelligent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  incredible traveling to Los Angeles and dipping my toes in the Pacific Ocean! I traveled all the way to California to visit my boyfriend, Herbert M ... ," the Caltech students were really awesome!  I got to visit my good friend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken ... , I have no clue whether I own any free will* or whether I still own my ... consider poetry to be a list of junk in my suitcases with line indentations

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  explained my request to one of the hotel managers in my broken “Hinglish ... because I was able to appreciate what I have in my life in a way that I ... know who or where I’d be without you. To Zaahira, my sister and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  throughout the spring. It was all residing on an old development server in my dorm room -- a machine that used to serve as my phone switchboard in the ... weeks, awakening to a wrong number call on my cell phone, realizing the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  Posthumous isn't the right word, but it's among my favorite in the ... totally free courtesy of my dorm's IFAF allotment. The culture of the dorm ... . Then some other people on my floor went to the free Ig Informal lectures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my ... ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source ... of it. I wanted numbers. I wanted hidden knowledge. What's my purpose

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  around my family who does not know a thing about MIT while simultaneously ... of innocent baby frosh. One of my favorite parts about this semester ... my favorite parts of MIT, despite only being officially in ~The Tunnels

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up until this point, my homework has been pretty predictable: read some lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none of my classes have

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... : When I tell my friends I live in EC, most of them say, "Wow I didn ... doors because EC is my home, and I shouldn't have to walk past a security

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  . Recommendations Rasheed Auguste May 5, 2016     In my mind, every BSU Co ... Lives Matter undergraduate response. However, I had no idea what my ... Students’ Union’s official approach was solidarity. With the help of my BSU

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  figured I should brush up on my statistics and refresh my memory about how ... and giving somebody my seat, but I'm in the middle of the last row and ... my first info session with multiple schools, it's weird thinking that

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  So in case anybody's unaware, I finished my project at the lab at the ... ) undergraduate administrator, probably based on how many other advisees each of my choices already had. In Biology, I just picked my UROP supervisor as my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can read on our "What we look for" page, or that my response to "how can I prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022