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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... the sophomore version of pass/no record. More specifically, you get to ... aren't always a measure of effort, but if you happen to get an A, a B, or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract ... looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... absolutely exhausted one evening, getting to bed early for the first time in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... me starting this post and me getting to this paragraph, my sushi ... getting better. I’m at the right age to explore and figure things out, to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  Tuesday evenings, for three hours, and during each class you’d get to hear ... just when they started to get interesting, and there needed to be more ... : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... by the building. The students began to harass the tour guide from their ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and separate by terms, shall we? I'm officially retired from the sport of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  didn’t think it was possible for me to understand. By the end of the UROP ... out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool ... while longer. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my stir

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... passers-by stop to watch us. To be performing again, to be whole, to ... surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  [/annotation] concerts after that but didn't get to go to any others. later, I went to the ... , all in very beautiful ways. I went with Nora to a poetry reading by ... commitments, it really feels impossible to get everything done sometimes. but

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  , and then go home and have dinner afterwards. I also elected to get paid for this UROP by the UROP office (as opposed to receiving credit), so ... Love At Work (LAW) missions camp. The camp, founded in 1993 by Killearn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  be in now because it's not easy to get into some dorm in the re ... overstating it. Drew, you should make every effort to get into the optimal place ... demand and not easy to get into. However, you should NOT go in with the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I ... needed to be. I've always very much been a more ... bothering to chew.  I find myself feeling like a ghost, wading from one event

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  to inform how we create welcoming spaces, but also to help me get ... to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick ... 't just about picturesque scenes of snow and charming moments by the fire

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could ... and white and blue era, but i’m shuttled back to red every time. i tried

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  wanted to give applicants and the public an opportunity to get a view of the people who worked at MIT, to give you a chance to get to know us ... he likes it that way! If I ever write my autobiography, I’m going to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Underwater Dreams an MIT event

  

  States. I’d love to tell you that the film has a happy ending, in which the boys’ successes get recognized and their talents get directed ... paper. They were not allowed to advance. They did, however, inspire a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  just put the writing off. "Just one more day…I'll get to it ... for both, to maximise my chances of getting into one of them; these ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... lists all of the forms that need to be filled out, along with their deadlines and the addresses they need to be mailed to. First there was the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005