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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  . Disclaimer: most of these people were working in Computer Science—but I also ... ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  interested in less of the wet lab stuff, and more of the applied engineering ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... grain of salt...my effort level under P/NR is admittedly quite low"]c o n ... -solving at the whiteboards, most of which i feel unprepared for.    6

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  with the aid of her adorable flying science cows:    ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... to me: When I was searching for and applying to schools six years ago ... 't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into ... for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with ... 'm ecstatic about, because I didn't particularly enjoy many of the required

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  gave me real science-y skills. Specifically, I can now say that I kind-of-sort-of ... -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of ... Hello! In just a couple of days, MIT will be hosting the Campus ... will be hundreds of activities going on throughout your stay. There is

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... . With an acceptance rate of just under 9.7%, it's actually more difficult ... difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making them. Decide we must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  business. now i want to apply to some top us universities for my bachelors in ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college, what its like here. i want to convince him to apply. i want to comfort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  ’s inevitable to wonder how those numbers apply to you, on which side of the ... too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a ... adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  to learn more things about how our understanding of science came to be ... recommend This day, the Year I Applied, Although of course you end up becoming ... time of applying to college (whether to MIT or to somewhere else), in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  .07, Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science). It's probably one of the easier ... any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesn't really ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... stellar corpses that emit two beams of radio light and spin around like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014