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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... -shirts (the technical term is "swag"), and there was plenty of that. This story ... first impression upon entering the Career Fair: [for the non-MIT people

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost ... + a lot of work and she divorced me because i left dishes by the sink ... . and while none of us can see the future like louise could, we do know

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  't catch what that implied) So the whole point of this is to take a deep ... graduating from high school, and the end of Senior Year is totally awesome ... a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I ... to visit the site of the first Revolutionary battle, waging a water war

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... gave me my first chance to foray into the land of MIT Admissions Blogging

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  and imprisonment of girls whom she was nurturing and the wrenching ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s: the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes ... the gym, or the minutes of sleep i was previously getting between 1 and ... energy to look around me and feel joy. but already the lists of things i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  and some of the rooms have a nice view of the athletic fields. I'm lucky ... sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  proteins and writing the first draft of the paper about the project. So far ... Summertime, and the livin' is easy... and there are tons of awesome ... premieres of The 4400 and Hell's Kitchen, both of which we watched religiously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  for Burton-Conner, a scholar of the history of technology, and a regular ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  , my collaborators—friends—and i were wrapping up the first draft of a ... problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that ... were utterly confused, now makes sense. and at the end of every semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of ... don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of ... the walls of our living spaces, and helps define, complement, and ... people and culture that have existed within the bounds of those walls. It

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... time and one finish time for all of its 20,000 participants? Instead, the ... A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  . It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and ... thirty minutes away from Alewife, and the little journey began. All four of ... era of the Ancient Greeks and approached that of “the Moderns”. When we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... ignore that, and probably all the other stuff. I was so, so wrong

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the ... postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers from universities, research institutes, and industries in Singapore and
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country ... and Korea) require no understanding of the local language; others (like ... sure if that will continue this year.) And this year, the organizers of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  geeks, and this is a class that plays to the strengths of computer geeks ... structure of the UNIX time-sharing system, and the design of the Ethernet. 6 ... class (either 9.07 or one of the others) for the major. Honestly, I hate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007