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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  me to work overtime and on holidays. The project on which I work long ... 've done probably 98% of the technical work on it, and am largely free to ... to just do the BCS major, and I think I would have missed out on a lot

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  latter). I see the drive and ambition we had as students directed to new ... . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... work and still get to work close to (but not too closely) every day

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  week, where you can go an get one-on-one instruction with either your TAs ... going to be on Sunday nights, and one of the TAs wrote this apologetic e ... First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  … You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on ... have email notifications on my phone. When I see an event I want to go to ... clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  9 months to do all of the following: get through the list of 101 ... think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only ... curriculum for this (and the other classes) on OCW if you're interested in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  ’t tell me this. I still don’t get credit. … we’re having discussions on ... to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had remarked on my bright red hair. It’s noticeable. Not in Davis Square though

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN!!! I did not get one (although I was very tempted to do so), but Kayla E ... Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... . Then, when you're ready to come back, you email your dean at S3 and your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  to do exactly just that. On Getting Burnt  At the same time that my ... , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  planned to go on a campus tour (which started every half hour), but missed ... tour. Enter Kavita from Florida. The three of us decided to go to New ... you guys have heard your teachers say that?) Thursday New House

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  you're interested, like I've been threatening to do for some time, I ... I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  the world. Past grant recipients have used the money to fund research on ... here's a form you can fill out if you're willing to create a Pepsi ... all to glance about your community and see what you can do to make it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  I've taken care of all my graduation requirements. On my way to turn ... ever get into MIT. As we were gossiping about people with whom we went to ... Georgetown, and is waiting on others. I'm getting two bachelor's degrees -- one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  perspective on what a robotics career has practically meant to me, but don’t be afraid to think outside the box. Your base discipline, that which you are ... can even do a lot with just one. Where you get with your “two” might

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  bananas on your head. Nothing can get better than that. Con: There are no ... Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... your Halloween vibe? No problem! Here are five costumes ideas that'll get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  into the New Year, I want to wish all of you the best of luck on your ... tell you something: when you get to college, change is neither slow nor ... some people...and simply doesn't for others. (Karen has more to say on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was ... somehow unable to deliver what’s expected, find whatever works to get your ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  realism sort of fashion. But it took me a lot of thinking to even get to ... some point tried to get all of us to read Infinite Jest, which was his ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  yours, Ben And on the flip side - to all the teachers who take the time to ... there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to ... Boston on Thanksgiving morning, research changes the world. So to those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005