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• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... few months to finish up work on some papers, and started my postdoctoral ... got a job offer last year from Google[x] that was too good to turn down

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  is why it is written on shirts.  But I learned it. I went to class ... while the doctor listens to my lungs and winces. I went on antibiotics ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  leg room; plus, I'll get to sleep in a little later than people on the ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... females have pleasant dreams on this vehicle, but I try to imagine that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  sometimes, you don't have to be better at what you're doing. You can sing, or ... shame in sharing your work. Leave the pursuit of excellence to those who want to get better. That's something that I failed to grasp for so long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  right on the Massachusetts Bay, and I always get a little nervous on the ... swear you're never going to fly again. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, my ... safety on campus, because she was worried about sending me off to school in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away from Boston if you would like to go on a long weekend trip. It's only one ... you're curious. Then I went to Central America, and within the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  objects and places around me. I need your help: I'm striving to create a ... to present MIT to the world under new light, exposing its ... Kickstart this project, you're not just getting a photobook, you're getting an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the ... -Conner dorm) decided it was time to declare war on Conner 4 (fourth floor). We ... discussed the tactical advantages to various attack strategies. We settled on

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  6.073 (officially CMS.611) are hard to get in without an affiliation ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... and in other arenas. I'm looking ahead to next summer to maybe get an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  starts working on the kitchen table, next to me. I get my laptop and do the ... -campus, having to get tested twice a week, and all the new rules they have. We talk ... , sitting on his bed, scrolling through his phone, getting ready to go to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  the thief didn't have time to get a new lock for it so I just walked it ... budget your time. In high school, although I could be out working on the ... for literally 5 minutes to go get something. Fortunately, I recovered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  Ben he has a new story to tell me about my ex. I wonder what he tells ... get a chance to meet Ben and understand how completely ridiculous he truly is. You have no idea what you're missing out on.) Anyway, after the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  why write about this on 03/13? Tomorrow, you are going to be able to ... ’t ever achieve your dreams. But I’d like to tell you this: eventually, you will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... place... or the fact that you're almost expected to "spend" after a ... 's probably a little too exciting. Everything is new and everything is your

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  to keep, and current ones shouldn't get hung up on the things that must ... are limited. Feel free to let me know your thoughts on this! :)   ... discussed quite a bit. It was first posed to me on a call with someone on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let ... getting accepted to MIT. We were beyond shocked and ecstatic. We Felt All ... regard to us, and the projects we worked on made us so happy to be at MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  few other things you should know. #1: Get to know your host. For the ... much going on! Even if you're going to be a guest blogger, I'd recommend ... ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008