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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT ... little over a year ago, I visited my City Councilor during his weekly office hours. As an urban planning student, I had learned a bit about the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  How was your CPW? It was definitely one of my favorites. I had lots of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to address some concerns about CPW by sharing my own experiences. Recently, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... for my next blog post and I took a dainty sip from my aluminum water ... the scanner in CopyTech and my belated post could finally be uploaded. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  week ago, and I already have four problem sets due and a quiz this week.  Still, I love it here.  This weekend, I played with cats, took a trip to ... .  Like I said, MIT is a really stressful place filled with really stressed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  , I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post: what am I doing this semester? MIT has many urban horror stories about ... 't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  alliteration.   But I digress, after all I'm not here to wax nostalgic ... , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma splices to make the Voynich Manuscript look like Shakespeare. No what I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... semester. After three and a half jam-packed years at MIT (including IAPs), I

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

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  basic gist, as I'm sure you know, is that Americans work their tails off ... something I noticed a couple months ago – this: What's that, you ask? The top is a snapshot of a week in February 2009, when I was at MIT, while the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on the others!). Sometimes I go through these periods where I end up doing ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  from the dorm, I knew a full Pre-Thanksgiving week of MIT won’t be pretty. It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus ... , Physics Quiz, CLASSES!!!] For the moment, I have no profound thesis for a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  thy salad (/exaggeration). Every morning for the past two weeks, I ... bench and shaded by many a tree. Every time I pass, beautiful and poetic ... a good place to study solid-state chemistry.” So I should confess now

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  me, I'm trying to get everyone so familiar with what scientists and engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  it. I was really excited for the conference for a couple of reasons. For one, I've never heard Ben give an info session or speak before, and for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Two or three Thursdays before finals, Peach '09 and I went to Au Bon ... complained about something or other, I began to enter the Summer Jobless stage that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I feel like I should write something fantastically profound and meaningful about change and how I've grown and other such profound things, since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... queries: I'm a little concerned about MIT's degree of toughness...is it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Perhaps you have noticed my lack of blogging lately, unfortunately I’ve been bogged down with final exams. I had an Organic Chemistry II exam on ... Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If I had been born a girl, my father would have wanted ... blog entry classification system that you have devised. Honestly, I think ... OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  . ------------------------------------- Visali wrote, "Can you explain why MIT is very selective? I know that it's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... . ------------------------------------- Edwin wrote, "I had applied last year to MIT but without the subject tests.I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006