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• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... , which to date has included topics on global warming and a unit on public ... global warming. Because 11.002 is a CI-H class, we are required to rewrite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  of the things that you may NEED to get out of a college experience are ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  'm going back to i'm just here in nyc for a bit _____ m: since i’ve gotten back from russia and since getting to college and meeting so many new ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  ;   Finally, after a long, hard day of talking to companies, getting ... to me. 2) I was serious about getting an internship.   See ... brushed it right back off thinking to myself "Oh, no one get internships

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go ... already off to a rough start. (Although I guess spring break had not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  . To anyone reading this, it gets lighter. I will give you a short ... getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a ... to get it. My life is getting infinitely more complex. I have to think

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  has been able to get a taste of what the CPW experience is and that they ... ! These couple of days have been a testament to how amazing the MIT ... impressive to me. I'm so thankful to be a member of this community :) As I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... the time to get out the DVD, here's a YouTube video of them wrestling at ... horseshoes and lawn darts, we provide a 10 by 10 foot mud pit, strippers, and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... (4 weeks), so it is a great chance to explore a field that you are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  . It’s a life skill you’ll have to get used to if you come to MIT ... campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  as a model to see what these genes actually do by knocking them out in ... "practiced" by pipeting water from a beaker to another beaker for a good half ... by working in lab). I have yet to see a university that is so

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  football mascot by their weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obtRtrk42a8 ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... put all my eggs into one basket, and i truly was expecting to get ... many different words. there was a lot of "deferred people get accepted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  ."]quick[/annotation] crash course by giving a formal introduction to Nimbus, our pride and ... in the sky - we were able to get a lot of solar energy and perform ... of Chase is occupied by a member of our MechE subteam whose job is to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was ... holidays were a good time to return home and recharge before Regular Action

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  of a word, and then everyone tries to figure it out by iteratively ... Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... <3'] is Semantle.[/annotation] I was introduced to it by Jenny W. (G

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of ... alternatively, 6.0001 and 6.0002. When my advisor asked me to make a graduation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  saying "Hey look! I'm published!" is really going to make a difference. It ... migrate over to the "Accepted Papers" section and happen to see a paper ... , I was feeling a little lost when they asked me to create an emulator

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009