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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  you guys is the two months of illness and a phat bundle of electric ... . Quadrant one is like the “Omg my quality of life is so freaking good” section ... .   Okay, so here are some of the hallmark experiences of my

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... neatly to the story of the brownies; a few days ago, I decided to try my ... . Hepburn’s recipe in the midst of some online meandering, and decided to give

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  what the last few weeks have been like for us. Best of luck to you all ... Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  first two weeks of November, and then last week was suddenly too free. Now ... snippets from the past month. (I've kind of been following my own schedule and not doing many student-life related things because of the time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... , especially since I haven't been doing any of that (thinking, that is) for the ... each cookie go in a half-pound bag. (Four of the shortbreads, two of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  /07/07, which of course translates to THE BIRTHDAY OF THE CENTURY. (Regardless of ... bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake ... places over the course of the day. It would be a momentous undertaking, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  Projects (the first part of a senior capstone class). 16.901, Computational ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... .24, Diseases of the Nervous System. Adam '07, course 16 (aeronautical and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  trampoline was first put up, one of the upperclassmen said “I have friends who ... ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... one of my best moments.    The Simmons trampoline is a great

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  . Shameless plug: Check out the first quarter of this post for more info ... research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of ... + 10,480 mi MISTI Internship - Santiago, Chile Fast facts: One of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  . Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is MIT's response ... heart of much of the Program’s work lies MIT’s Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), a linked set of computer models designed to simulate the
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle. I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 've been thinking about that's open for discussion. The announcement of MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y. '12's post from the time of yore with an Ask Me Anything! If you ... if you're an incoming first-year) Reflections on the MIT experience

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  our inbox, these delays have been the source of considerable anxiety for ... other reason). We use the same processes and standards of review during ... normal conditions. In other words, we're making the best of a challenging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re Not Alone Even if you think you are.

  

  :00 - 11:00 AM: The last two thirds of cell biology lecture (I miss the first ... a couple of hours, and I found myself lying on the floor of the lounge debating the finer points of reaction scheduling in a batch process with our

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • October 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  learning the importance of placing school first and jobs second. But a very ... of coding experience, or maybe it was the bags full of swag that gave ... It's been a week since the Career Fair, which still feels like

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ? :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- EDIT. I've received some feedback about people related to some of the ... ! Please check out the picture of dinner below and the links, and I hope to ... :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Here's the final dinner sitting in front of me right now! And trust me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... also knew a lot of people from college who took the path you described ... difficult for me to pinpoint what i got out of the program - i learned a bit

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General ... .13 (first half of "Junior Lab") OR non-physics lab of "similar intensity" One ... going to have to take close to the same large number of units as before

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... horror stories about the impossibility of maintaining a high GPA at MIT ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011