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• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  ; Final dinner with my students and another MIT GTL'er   Day 21: On a ... equality. The hope was that by sharing my story and my love for MIT, I would ... stereotypes that discourage them. In presenting about MIT and where these biases

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  ’d already chosen for college. Then MIT destroyed those misconceptions, for ... four academic years. I am grateful to MIT because it has shown me those ... think of future days at MIT without homework as thrilling. I’ve also had

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  an interestingly prominent part of his MIT experience. Knowing that ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words ... with this boy I like. And then MIT happened (not getting admitted into

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I ... thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. It's a little long but I ... ’t try Professors that are bad at teaching The MIT Administration

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  your other courses at MIT. One challenge of the courses, and the ... Studies" class at MIT might be like, you can check out the syllabus ... sense of MIT. Fitness remains a pretty big part of my life: (almost) daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified ... that time. When the opportunity came to spend a semester away from MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  MIT. It just didn't happen here. It's a curse and a blessing. The ... feeling here at MIT. I'm free to pursue what's academically interesting or ... with MIT's prehealth office. It was something that I had to do to stay on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  those in high school, since there's an entire section on the MIT ... bump into a couple of my fellow Lancaster-ians on MIT campus. For more ... MIT life). Like CTY, I made friends here who I'm close to even now - and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  National Chapter Liaison (read: president) of the Impact Movement @ MIT, I ... further develop our MIT chapter. After the conference activities were over ... former MIT Admissions counselor) at Sponsors for Educational Opportunity

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... me a curveball: what do I do for fun. MIT may be known for its academic ... picture of my brass rat so I can say my MIT ring was at a national monument

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that ... a recently-blogged subject: FIRST robotics. I spent a year on MIT ... , though, because I've spent a lot of time already doing just that: http://maslab.mit

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  thought MIT was tough, and it was. But that's all it was, it was tough. It ... 's what everybody else was doing. "I'm doing it!" I thought, "I'm doing MIT ... was wrong. Well, not about doing ok, because MIT hasn't completely

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  's last biology lecture of the semester. Only at MIT does one of the world ... chemistry lectures -- they're far better than you think. Don Sadoway, MIT ... MIT is absinthe used to demonstrate the real-life relevance of binary

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  everyday (which I basically did at MIT during the school year anyways ... nice break from the rigors of MIT during the term. Whee - no physics for ... return to MIT. I'm living in Baker this summer, in a room with really poor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... , and polymer chemists and mechanical engineers at MIT. They’re now

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  , at MIT and Cambridge." I think the best way to illustrate the ... places: TYPICAL DAY AT MIT (SPRING 2007) 9am - 10am Hit the snooze button ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it ... last box on my “101 Things To Do Before Graduating from MIT.” And, lucky ... (except for “How do I get into MIT?” I still don’t know what to say to that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... thing you could do would be to come here, stay with an MIT student, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now ... . (Hosed= MIT slang for “really busy.”) Some other things are going on too. On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a ... LSC (MIT's student-run 'movie theater' in one of the big lecture halls.) They were some of my most exciting and carefree days at MIT. Once classes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006