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• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  course of my life. Sarah and I moved, freshly affianced, to New Orleans. I ... first place.']Course 9,[/annotation] [annotation note="Trained rats to run left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  , I decided that I would just try to get through it one step at a time ... up and started to get ready. If you have never built a big project, you ... happy to let us do), get the right drill bit, and get the right screws (we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... to get students to talk to me, but this is understandable -- it took me ... "smart" and it would be a pity if I didn't get to use my brain as much as I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing your stories with us. We have all been truly inspired by them. Many of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or ... want to. :) 4. We're not afraid to put our engineering skills to the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... , and necessary, to get away for short breaks. But four months is a long

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a three-day weekend. In the meantime, I'm going to be your very own Kiefer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  its way. For now, if you're ever in building 33, stop by the hangar and ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  a lot of trial and tribulation to get here. i'm still coming to terms ... by all my ci-h classes and [annotation note="I AM NOW IN INTRO TO ... muses, chorallaries, and syncopasians. i would love to join your groups

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  . I'm also thrilled to be part of DUSP's new urban science major (Course ... . Anything else that you want to say? I'm starting a new lab called the Data ... we'll post periodically. And just generally, feel free to get in touch

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware ... actually translated to Spanish from Catalán). Como Agua Para Chocolate (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  and fascinating place to spend your college years and it's great that ... you the tools you'll need to forge ahead. Try to get some rest Friday ... Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  π Day

  

  /14) was also Einstein's birthday, and seeing as I was right next to the ... camera to take a picture with birthday boy Albert. What was I doing at ... of the finalist projects of the Intel Science Talent Search. I got to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  [i think i need to drop another class] Hey gang, it’s your favorite ... in one night, but intentionally working to get caught up and do well in ... can focus my time to get stuff done before two in the morning.  My

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off ... college life and high school life is that getting mail is incredibly ... ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4 ... and smash a ball or whatever. tl;dr you have to take PE and you're

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  , service is not only a fantastic way to hang out with your sisters - it is ... up, they became inspired to get involved in service events," said ... centered on child advocacy, including a visit by three sorority sisters to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011