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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  . After I graduated from MIT, I went to graduate school at Harvard. I did my ... ’re keeping track, my postdoc at Children’s means I’ve done lab work at MIT ... Museum of Science with all of our MIT friends in attendance. Adam had been

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  ******* and welcome them to MIT with open arms. It was nice knowing you ... missed. *******: If you ultimately decide to commit to MIT (hint hint

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for ... . MIT majors and their course numbers Organic reactions involving alkenes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  reason: two (TWO) performances with my a cappella group, the MIT ... Annual MIT-Wellesley Toons Concert for a Cure, a benefit concert for ... Roadkill Buffet, MIT's very own improv comedy group. They took the prompt

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  street market, associated with pretty lights and tons of delicous food. MIT ... , traditional and contemporary performances by the esteemed MIT Asian Dance Team ... , the amazing MIT Asian Dance Team. In which this guy uses a yo-yo to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  talks about how he started out, what he thinks of MIT, and why Khan ... : On MIT's responsibility to lead educational innovation: "Everyone wants ... 's about going and building things. When you walk out [of MIT], the most

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in ... of my strong points. I came to MIT because I wanted to do something ... everyone at MIT does (according to the fantastic pressure survey in the Tech

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  UROP.) 2b) I call this one, Wait Wut Why Do My MIT Notes Look Like Dis ... ? Figure 4. Friday (Night, continued) 4a) ABNORMAL. MIT students referring

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  leadership to life at MIT. At first I thought, hey leadership is leadership ... less surprising that I ended up at MIT. I mean, if you replace all ... science, you might think you found your stereotypical MIT student. My name

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  Drenched If you are reading this, you are lost on the path to MIT. Your ... MIT, for what chances do you stand against tens of thousands of ... . Not only do they exist, they hold true for getting into MIT. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  /maybe/possibly change in the future. With as many exciting majors as MIT offers, I'm not ... computers and how humans interact with their robotic counterparts. MIT & ... introduction to MIT level classes. For those of us whose first time on a college

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  and other areas...nerds? “ Because I work at MIT and I have come to ... using that term on television. And yet, we here at MIT do it all the time ... all on the patch of lawn across the street with their baseball mits in

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on ... form of peer pressure is not at all bad. Everyone at MIT has a passion of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  IAP, which is popularly described as "MIT without the work", i.e. the ... to GIRs, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an MIT student who doesn't insist that you should spend at least one IAP at MIT, just doing things for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  semester. After three and a half jam-packed years at MIT (including IAPs), I ... MIT: 20.380- Biological Engineering Design. This is Course 20’s senior ... classes, the title of this class is pretty self-explanatory. MISTI , MIT’s

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... , a professor at MIT. Woah. He was there because he's a recitation ... in a recent post by Hamsika - as part of MIT's Four Weeks For America

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... ,’ which means something completely different at MIT. The first birthday ... teaching, I’ve gotten a job through MIT’s Educational Studies Program, or ESP

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  has been reported that applications to MIT for this year have increased ... released next week. The Midyear Report is to be filled out by all MIT ... your MyMIT application tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010