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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  that you see on the news. And if you’re a person who looks at current ... of '18. Seriously, three (!!) out of over a thousand. On first glance ... people do come here with their hearts set on building robots and stuff, but

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  feed its live-born young, the platypus secretes milk over the entire ... arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now ... conference on sustainable energy with NREL, and I'm an undergrad so I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting ... get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... UberPool. Kamoya is Nigerian like me. He lived in Lagos for several

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  This was originally posted on my personal Medium blog @selamjie,  but ... time on Admissions :)  _________ When I was in grade school, I distinctly ... speak the best English could rely on. Others had restaurants, liquor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... nights on campus spent tooling. By the end of the week though, it's clear ... to break free from your jaw it itches unbelievably bad. Nothing helps

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  everything alone. The thought of going up and putting my name on the help queue ... a.m. chatting with, to go on spontaneous late-night trips to Harvard ... the most help from and collaboration with others. Freshman spring: I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the ... weight of juvenile shenanigans, keys strewn all over the living room, half ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  Math words, but not the math part. Yes, I can nerd on about math, but ... determinant comes from. Interestingly, Lewis Carroll preferred the term “block ... vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  out there. For those who are awaiting news on Pi Day, I hope this will ... awaiting such news, here are some fun pi(e) references! From yesterday's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  Roster) While Stefanyshyn-Piper was at MIT, she lived at WILG, worked at ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  . I'll post more news about the waitlist when things are official (as of ... ). Apparently the weather was pretty crazy today ("the sky was like at the end of ... of this photo I recently saw on a blog: richietown via Bostonist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  've decided to keep a live journal of the game on the blogs that i'll update ... don't live here). it would help if i knew who judrai's old target was ... (today was literally an entire class on regular expressions... fun times

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  farmer's markets, and lived on the homemade granola I bought there all ... 'm a 6.031 LA now, and someone put on Ecstasy of Gold during a grading ... long gone. I was reflecting on this the other day as I happened to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ... do they really help?" Actually, some tests at MIT go beyond index

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  facilities, chatted at length with various employees, and I think I'll get a ... get some things accomplished. (I worked on some projects for Amtrak ... here and there -- the Midwest, the South, and elsewhere on some long

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  august by Taylor Swift on repeat. As I grow older, I find that Taylor is ... . ii. It’s my birthday today. It does not feel too different from any ... abstract algebra; to choose a different dorm; to ask for academic help. But

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  . Living in the laid-back southern France culture means that on the weekends, I get to explore the city with friends, go to the farmers market, hike ... all parts of the world and help them determine their magnetic properties

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  -hour blocks. Annoying if you live far from campus, convenient if you've got a UROP! Run back to lab to check on that experiment from earlier. Grab some ... , eat breakfast while catching up on email/blogs/news. 9am - 10am First

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  computer science classes this year, but today I only have a single lecture, one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding sessions today. In the morning, I realize this means I can sit in whatever

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs ... 's her birthday today! Happy birthday, Lauren! Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome ... wanting to be flown back home because he can’t work on the grounds during

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014