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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  student at MIT.) A couple weeks before the end of term, we abandoned an ... , to be quite honest, Course 16 is not designed like many other majors ... have asked me if Unified is hard. And I suppose I have to extend my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  emerge and your disorganization is starting to affect your life and ... movement is impeded by your piles of stuff. You might start making excuses to ... faeces in the house, in the house, and this is the rule not the exception

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... tissue is induced, and how it is determined, molecularly, which cells

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is beautiful around here (let's hope it lasts through next week!) and everyone is ... attending this year. If you haven't yet registered (via your MyMIT account

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm itself, but there is something cold and unfeeling about New Vassar. From ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is what we did with ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  .5 semesters of MIT is daunting. There are too many things to do and just not ... a lot was Courseroad, which is an MIT course ✨road-mapping✨ tool that ... make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  , but MIT is fundamentally exhausting. Good and bad exhaustion weave ... The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... experiences of a lifetime. Last year, MIT didn't give us a spring break because

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the MIT community for a weekend."]which is like Splash but for middle ... high school math competition run by Harvard and MIT students that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  , snapping me back to reality by succinctly reminding me that being at MIT is ... Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events ... / already here: Welcome to MIT! All of us, no matter our class year or living ... theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  adventures as part of the MIT Flying Club, which is, yes, yet another thing you ... have spent here, MIT has a lot of completely amazing people. One of these people is my good friend Lauren H. '16, who (among other things) happens to

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

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go ... that most venerable of restaurants, the Olive Garden(there is something ... . Apparently their outfits were the subject of quite the debate-this is in direct

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  . If MIT is the Disneyworld of misery, then I rode all the rides this ... thing about MIT, #262, is that you quickly learn to not take surveys ... MIT, #261: Sure, you're miserable on weeks like, say

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  repeat in my head for a week already. As the song is less than two minutes long to begin with, this is nothing good. 2AM - Tired tired tired need ... wondering whether it is a benefit or an inconvenience to have this class

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  MIT who rides BMX?" I forwarded this question to Adam, who is much ... First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly straggling onto campus, and I could not be more psyched. Rush/orientation is my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands ... ‘internship’ at MIT, you mean an internship with an outside company. Research has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone--Michael T. (UMD '19)--whose college ... entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a ... . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off ... a printable and check-able list of all the steps to becoming MIT ... of donning the costume is taking the custom Tim the Beaver ice packs

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015