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• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  get accepted, you can come stay with an MIT student and we'll show you the ropes. If you can't make it up for an overnight visit, there ... different dorms and decide which one they want? You can see them all when you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk about a program that interests you. If you've read my other posts than you

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  much you simply just do not know. It’s building yourself up to where you want to be. It’s taking a break to admire what’s around you. It’s good ... as you walk out the door. It’s friends that can brighten your day with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... essays while you're at it) FUNNNNNN. (especially after spending the entire

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  you choose to get a PhD, begin when you are 19 2. Be distantly related to an MIT prankster 3. Hey, you can even skip the PhD altogether, just ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  is: Basically, you get a crash course in robotics and controls, and ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began ... code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 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…

  

  interesting, they can ask the author to explain the project, and you can have an ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where ... , and conference attendees can browse through the different displays to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Umbrellas were thought to be an accessory suitable only ... pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it ... Jeannie, where she has to make a robot Jeannie to walk down the aisle with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  can't tell you many specifics about my Draper job because most of the ... , it can be kind of a shock when you realize you're not. So I think it ... you have to worry about getting into -- just lotteried classes. The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

    ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go.” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe ... : Laundry is very important. Neglect it you should not. The workload can be

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  ’s completely silent there, and the reading room echoes very loudly so you can ... light sleeper, because the noise in the hallway can get loud. But there ... you can walk across the hall and bug your head lecturer!   CSAIL

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  events in your undergraduate career where you get to see so many people in ... . It has an extensive history (that I won’t go into but you can read ... present the winner of the [annotation note="which is super cool, and you can

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  , there are all the many, many student groups on campus where you can forge ... I were lost in Addis Ababa. You’ve probably already guessed that I get ... can do anything, but you can’t do everything. If my previous year was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  overstating it. Drew, you should make every effort to get into the optimal place (to the extent that you can figure it out) now, because Omar is correct ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the opposite effect, an ungestalt effect. where, instead of some larger

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  free-spirited. Daisy is now living the life out on a farm where she can ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  to find a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) where I get ... get confused about how I spent the last two hours of my life on cat You ... . Foresight can be 20/20, too! All myopia jokes aside, here's what I'd like to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  state in which you're performing an activity where you are fully immersed ... is only fulfilling when you can occupy your time with other things and ... . Hide your phone so you can further your ability to experience flow

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2018. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work ... dining Bryan: ooh Bryan: did you get stir fry tonight? Diana: nope, tonight ... : Bryan: hey, so get this, i was walking down mem drive today Bryan: and out

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006