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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  undergraduate career couldn’t have come fast enough. The last two weeks of term ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The ... ships are made for.” So, as before, I’m on my way. Full steam ahead.

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  feels that way in the middle of a hell week - what's the point of having ... .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... assistance from powerful but inefficient fast-twitch fibers.  On the other hand

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  outside of the Museum of Science on a Boston Duck Tour before the tour guide ... I think this exhibit intrigued me the most because of the way it ... the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  run-in: I ran into Bryan yesterday on the fifth floor of the Student ... absurd to me)... but it's ethernet and most of the time it's very fast. 2 ... First, some updates: A few people have asked about information on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  , humanities, and industry. Assignments focus on game analysis in the context of ... experimental design and data analysis, with an emphasis on the acquisition of ... meets f o u r times a week.   If you have any ~feelings~ on any of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... pool and got good and hungry for what I consider one of the most ... make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  fact, it might even be a good idea to work ahead on schoolwork ... last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the video onto social media with a list of new nominees and a link back ... the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of ... butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... semblance of in-person MIT. All of your classes are still on Zoom and you don

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  number of electives. The units required depend on your department, and can ... RESOURCES (Note that this is a partial list of resources based on my ... ): there’s at least one on every floor of each residence hall (more than if

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on ... , reading things, lying down on the other side of the room, chatting people ... covid. without the rhythm of the semester reminding me to get tested on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  the untimely death of Bill Murray. It was good. Now it is a new day. I ... 57% on this quiz. Honestly way better than I expected."]I estimated I ... and the beginning to a new, good week. My first plan was to work, since

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood finger board. I got it on ebay from a really nice guy in Spendora Texas

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... about the importance of having a diverse range of backgrounds on a team ... International Student Office website). You can read more about it on this ISO page

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  possible. I would perform on top of the coffee table, singing loudly and ... blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to ... feels almost desperate, like I'm clawing my way for some sort of purchase

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... awkwardly on the side taking a picture; the camera's hiding my face. harhar ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  dispenser high. It is one of the dispensers that have appeared everywhere on ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but ... Rat is one of MIT's most famous tradition, I figure better late than ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  ] speaks of the importance of being able to be "on the failure track for a ... of different ways of looking at different things." There are also all kinds of ways that this "awareness that there's more than one possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005