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• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... math/data analysis Aw, but neuroscience is cool. Brains aside for now, what are your goals for the summer? Finish the project!!! Also go on fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy ... . Why would schools do this? For the money, mostly, because if you make ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have ... and relatives is that, “Oh, I'm heading back this Sunday for IAP.” If I actually said that, though, I'd be met with, at best, a raised eyebrow and an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  -1pm, Hotel @ MIT The UFLC will be a forum for active student leaders ... women at the Institute (MITRA NOTE: I have pictures of this, and will ... opening. Suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 for non-students. All

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  waiting for me at home, and we had an enthusiastic reunion, then soaked up ... : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... really warmed my heart at a time when I was quite nervous about my next

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  looking at pictures of agarose gels for my UROP, doing my 6.042 (Math for ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the ... major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  while everyone else was frolicking in the snow or relaxing at home, I was waking up at 7:30am on weekdays (this is hard for a college student. really ... staring at The Weather Channel for hours on end as a child, and having a

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

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  11PM, so just for fun we went back to MIT! At the Student Center we ... certainly cannot substitute for the real experience of being on MIT's campus ... very lucky to find out that my high school sponsors college trips for

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  answer in next entry, or just email me (iamjkim at mit dot edu). Now, for ... I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but ... very helpful during this difficult time. Meanwhile, back at MIT, life

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  a shot at winning, and the latter for pure entertainment value ... of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... brain is concerned, so when you get home at night, you're not exactly

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  leave it out at room temperature without fear of food poisioning. This new ... Z Center as I was getting changed for my evening run. Now, I didn ... inorganic chemistry and think you have a remarkable gift for conveying the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  a "reading week," but apparently a "reading day" is enough for MIT ... on "Leonardo da Vinci and the Search for the Soul" by world ... lie.) Saturday: 7:30 AM- 5:00 PM: MIT Habitat for Humanity workday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for ... , and rowing provided a key distraction for me. This fall, I raced at (you ... waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  two weeks ago i was walking through the infinite corridor at night ... there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  of my blankets for them to cuddle with at night, and then they suddenly ... . ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats. [annotation note="short for Public Universal Feline"]PUF[/annotation] usually

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  job as an RA for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern ... everywhere. At the end of August, after you've been here for about a week ... writing an "apologies for being too hosed to post" entry and never finished

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  the quote of the evening, for me at least, came when Andreas from ... food truck at 77 Mass Ave (looks a little greasy for me), the food court ... going-away potluck dinner for Julian, who's heading back to France on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  ’ve taken at MIT have had at most 20 pages of writing, and those were for ... classes that you want to while at MIT, but this position is (for the most ... at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  participating, and then of course everyone at MIT for appearing)!!! If you would ... of course…… at least for the most part (awkward lol)). The thing about ... at once that you can't get anything out. It's like you have 500000x

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  school buses? Maybe they go for an after-work drink at the Asgard? Maybe ... tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at ... " from The Hangover. Ahem - Where do food trucks sleep at when they take a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010