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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  desk of an admissions officer. On Monday I went food shopping, which was ... . Only, he made fun of my tacos and said they weren't very good, which was ... that bio pset on my desk. Cool learning experience of the day: 21F.716

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK ... grammatically incorrect. I know that as the queen of run-on sentences, I'm not one ... get across. By the way, all of the Introductory Biology classes cover

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  hack of 2013! A great way to start, after last year's concluding one on ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue ... to the Rutherford model of the atom. You should have seen the way the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  . What kind of student do you think makes a good match to MIT? MIT students ... . Tell us about some of the recent ways in which Untravel Media has worked ... hacks?) What is your preferred way to the get the tour: on your smartphone

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from ... moment in many ways. For one, I’m once again sitting in front of my ... of strangers whose perceptions have some bearing on my future felt

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  try new things. The concept of jadedness scares me a little. I’ve seen ... differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself, interact with others, how to be independent, and how to lean on others or ask

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  'd ever figure out my way through the completely illogical streets of Tokyo ... basic human kindness in a way that, much like yours truly on my first day ... Japanese suburbs. Combine all that with my winning sense of direction and you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  of them were intriguing in their own way, only a few were classes that ... In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I've noticed that my outlook on things has changed dramatically. It can be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  of the technical work on it. Albert still helps me with experimental ... of and be first author on the paper describing it. In some sort of ... way things are going to be. This focus on doing research that's likely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on ... out. On the way back, we stopped by NYC and had a chance to walk around ... , as I am a proud owner of new glasses! We also met up with my cousin

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and ... up your psets, perhaps)? You may also have heard of Gleevec, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  of different exercises, but my main focus is gonna be on SQUATTING ... to my collection of positive things I could look back on when I was ... than starting. In a lot of ways, getting back into lifting feels a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  . I'm not really laying on my bed, I'm kind of shoved into it, feet ... that I have mastering physics tonight, a test on Wednesday, and a ton of ... liveblog to share. Me with our new dean of admissions, Stu Schmill. Matt Mc

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... . There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was Susan Hockfield, MIT's one and only president. A friend of mine pointed

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  graduate. A lot of students pursue 5th year masters, some go on to industry ... good candidate?" Hey Alia, Thanks for your support of the blogs =) As ... music a good way to lighten up the mood. Er...people do call me a geek

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In ... -president of WiEECS at the start of 2021, while I was still on my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  would be good to have at least a rough outline of what you'd like to see ... major news on my end since the last time we caught up is that I got my EMT training and have started working on the MIT-EMS ambulance. On your end: CPW

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  on the way to getting what you want out of college. Not because of ... those who are not - to concentrate on what you wanted out of an MIT ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016