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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  important. This is obvious when simply writing it, but at least for me, it ... balance. I wish to conduct myself in a mature manner at my workplace, for ... given, is at least common enough. I hoped my intellect and my abilities

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  journaling on a consistent base, even if it's just for 5-10 minutes at the end ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... in my bed for a solid thirteen hours. I've spent my time back home with

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... Musical at 10PM, heading to bed around 1 after watching some dumb You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  electrical engineering at MIT and MIT was famous for its EECS program. However ... advice for prefrosh? A: 1) Do not try to do too much academics at MIT ... pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  mention that at MIT, GPAs are on a 5.0 scale. *grin* Let me sidetrack for a ... , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  Director on the comms team here at MIT Admissions, at least for the near ... looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  from this joke paper. If you stare at a given piece of Chicken code for ... Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... ="thing that compiles and runs code from a particular programming language"]interpreter[/annotation] for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... -wise, that's really great and I hope things stay that way for you. :) With the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Design is over, for now. I'm working at Hasbro this summer and will begin ... . . . Wait . . . what? Students at play? Oh right! Tuesday was the 4th Annual ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  just MITese for "I love being a senior at MIT!" ... doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... , pulled an all-nighter studying for it, realized I didn't know my butt from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... friends with a Swedish transvestite in aviator glasses? We ate lunch at ... nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  free Shakespeare production that they put on every summer down at Boston ... way, we stopped at The Wrap, a local Boston fast food chain which give ... anybody, except for this one Russian film version with a lot of broken

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... the back cover, it said that Pinker was a professor at the Massachusetts ... , blah blah. Besides the terrible motivation for applying, I had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  young for MIT?" And Applicant wrote, "Will my age affect how MIT looks at ... (or possibly more) at a college here in korea, then apply for MIT to study ocean ... restaurants around offer good vegetarian options. For example, on my list of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  being aware of who you are for the wrong reason, at least you can avoid ... You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  with my computer screen for 12 hours a day, now seemed as good of a time ... while isolated at home, but I feel guilty not taking advantage of the ... reading applications for the next—so it’s perhaps the only (and best?) time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  aside for fluffy / aesthetic stuff like poetry, even if STEM stuff is ... felt like there was a search for patterns I really enjoyed there. It was ... writing poems then, but really quite casually. At MIT sometimes it can feel

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023