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• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  post for you! Everyone I've met at MIT, yes, loves STEM, but ... upperclassmen and they give you the latest tips and tricks on how to not die at ... was figuring out these little hacks and easter eggs about MIT. Things at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... many opportunities at MIT, would search for funding. Pelkins got some ... have had with many other international students at MIT, heavy with the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a ... keep poking at it anyways... I took a robotics class last semester that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  Johns Hopkins and pursuing animal prosthetics and biomedical devices at ... an engineer or veterinarian in London in my apartment for 1 and some ... him close by at App State or some UNC. It was biomedical engineering and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of things that I had done for the last time that I hadn't realized. My last ... the worst night of the week for me as I struggle to wake up for Monday

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  that school has resumed. After landing in the Keflavík airport at 4 AM ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  we were living under the same roof this summer at pika*. You might recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  tickets for Bruce Campbell, and then nobody told me about super-hot Phil Keoghan doing a book signing ten minutes away at the Cambridgeside Galleria ... term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  clouds? An app for apps! At some point, we eventually settled on the perfect idea. None of us really cooked for ourselves at the moment ... at the first 6.813 presentation, and I will spend the next thirty

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit ... , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of ... intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing solar driers for family harvests and testing water in El Benque. January

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... . Because for the first time in our lives perhaps, there is very little ... - but for what? Or work - in which specific industry? Gap year - will it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  can really set a pattern for your time at MIT. My advice: choose your ... of events for August, Boston has been graced with cloudy skies ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  described my lessons from the National Conference for College Women Student ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact ... graduation ceremony for the GEL class of 2010 took place. It was encouraging to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... for you. We should have the following: Application Part 1, Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... . We're on schedule to release MIT admissions decisions online at 12:00PM ... /time changes for any reason, I will announce it here, but I do not foresee that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007