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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  this puppy by adding 25 to both sides." "Let's do a rigorous proof of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs,…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  sure about whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year(s) before enrolling at MIT (for a gap year, military service, or other reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop…

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... direction. And I've learned that leadership isn't just about charisma or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  Wednesdays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays, where on each day we have a chunk of 3 ... days are filled with tennis, swimming, gymnastics, cheerleading, road ... photon flux by one-tenth or one-hundredth of a percent. Determining the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  a research or industrial scientist or engineer, preferably in some ... and engineering, and the more useful I am to a research lab or ... . It is intense, and you live it and breathe it. You spend 24 hours a day

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  are on campus, or near campus. i spent my time with my classmates. i ... . on weeknights, i'd play board games, or go to lectures, or eat out. on ... or play smash with. i used to think i'd burn out, that by doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some ... never gives me an arbitrary number or letter grade. Instead, he always

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going ... tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... reactions to synthesize a particular drug (5.13), or determining the exact

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three ... minutes, a shadow crosses the window, cast by a pedestrian or two walking by ... several of my friends did, and decided whether they did or didn’t fit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  dissected every day and the feeling that I was a lizard-person trying my best ... was going to be a day where I suddenly stopped being scatterbrained and ... Too Much Noise once or twice a semester; my homework was now digital and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  .) For example: AP ChemistryA / A- / A ...or... Theory of Knowledge6+, 7 ... soon as your midyear grades are available or by February 15th, whichever ... completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school uses a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  scheduled at an unfortunate time (7:00-9:30pm Mondays and Wednesdays); I never

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  : 1. Moved rooms 2. Played SNES games 3. Played Rock Band 4. Eat new ... July....) 6.Traveled to New Hampshire 7.Participated in Mystery Hunt 8

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  winners have come to the stage...) 1 Posted by: Kim on November 27, 2007 04 ... X on November 27, 2007 06:01 PM 7 Posted by: Chris on November 27

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  radio program on WMBR 88.1, the MIT campus radio station. His show airs on Friday nights, from 7-8 PM, and if you listen to last week's show you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  7 spent less than $1 million and 8 spent nothing. "For a nation, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Dinello, and Stephen Colbert (it's French, bitch). Then we took the #1 ... friend Maya '06 (Course 7: Biology), a member of MIT Hapa, a group for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  doing something with Courses 18 - Mathematics or 7 - Biology. Melis and I ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version ... of McCormick’s central location on campus, or many other reasons. MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007