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• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  comparing it with other Asian countries such as Korea and Japan. I took 21G ... for four years in high school (plus speaking at home with my mom ... feeling. I have put a lot of effort into being in touch with all of my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal ... nerdiness ftw. Freshman 15, here I come? My dad left me with comfort food ... arrow magnets with profanity. Because I’d prefer not to swear online but

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  of where, when, and with whom your interview is with. 1. Don’t wait ... experiences with applicants who are curt, demanding, or rude in their emails, or ... ’ve interviewed students in three-piece suits with their hair slicked back and a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  gleamed with newness and strangeness and since I was convinced that MIT was ... , right? I get tons of e-mails with the header “eecs-jobs”, all of them ... -8:30 P.M. on Tuesdays, 7-10 P.M. on Thursdays), working alone or with a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  school as great as MIT...I'm obsessed with it. I'm sad that I probably won ... year and a half with that goal in mind, but I seem to be at a brick wall with no way around it. From what I have read, you must have taken

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  awards ($5,000 - $25,000) to organizations with plans to engage communities ... security for half an hour (apparently people really struggle with the concept ... headquarters manages to combine a playground with a sleek, modern big

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  that sets you up with internships abroad and funds your entire trip - but ... that opens the lid automatically upon the user's entrance, complete with ... , the graduate student I primarily work with. This leads to all sorts of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  refrigerators, and 26 undergraduates from all years (with a huge range of majors ... table" What's that? You're dying to meet the people I live with? Understandable. Let's start with that kid over there - the one at the dining table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  I realize I went on this mindblowing trip with MIT 3 years ago and ... didn't for a few days. That's because I actually got busy with my UROP ... 't leave me alone with this oh for god's sake watch out for the 1000 dollar

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of ... it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging ... like being fitted with a new pair of arms. The flash went off constantly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  's known here, egg-y bread. I learned that Brits don't eat this with maple ... supervision sections (like recitations) with other members of their college in ... Sir Christopher Wren, and because we have a picturesque pond with many

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  she can have an awkward conversation with the Hamptons' number one ... . Usually when Sam's Mom is watching the show with me, she'll say something ... from 11:00 to 11:30, and then from 3:30 to 5:30. The latter was with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  Ohio, remember), and we only did a little bit with molecular and cellular ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff ... issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but ... since then I have spun countless props on fire, danced and performed with ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  your MIT dining experience is by experimenting with exotic food ... committing to the grill or [annotation note="The station with 'regular' hot ... immediately with a side of fresh strawberries (assuming you're early enough to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  this remarkable experience and everything that came with it. i know i ... spread in different places, with no one place to call home, and that is ... in more ways than i would have expected to. i grew up with this

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -obsessed Course 8 major with a penchant for iconic phrases like, “Could this ... -arm, to scintillate our understimulated brains by opening emails with ... . With interests like these, I naturally gravitated toward the burgeoning

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  means the sunlight feels so bright (when it’s there) and hotpot with ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  what could be. Just like with Dali and surrealism in general, I feel like ... , helping to piece together whatever it means. The exhibit ends with a quote ... with just him if it wasn't tacky), so it was unsurprising that I went

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  windows with the river view. someone's left a pillow here, and i wonder if ... with chris from the chinese food truck by area four and we eat in ... , along with normal frames. after that, i camp out at my lab for the next

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023