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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  unmotivated. Career Fair lasts for three more hours -- all I'd have to go is get ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... for that project made me a half hour late to 4.42J/2.66J/1.044J

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight-less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston -- dedicated joggers forge on... 3:57 pm -- you got 3 minutes to get off the road cars

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  my FIRST Robotics Team. “Why do you want to spend your birthday in a ... tied to any high school. We were the only 2 girls on a 8-person team, and all-male mentors. Then, Ariel and I actually went back to our own high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  they performed: A Postcard to Boston (A Hymn to New England) Three Pieces ... Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

  [annotation note="The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas :^("]note[/annotation][annotation note="These memes were brought to you by us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  to see if we could get less than a pound of O.R.T.; when we succeeded ... , the campers began to open up one by one and share their thoughts and ... things that don't belong to me, I've spent the past 100+ hours staying up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  it by asking all the recent MIT graduates to raise their hands, and of ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... Square with my friend Moctar F. '22. It was the first time I has been to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  . Deadlines, however, remain. The Frosh will get used to those eventually. And ... just another roof to pass. The Frosh counts the days until departure from ... school), the Frosh can say, “I’m not going to finish this homework,” and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  three questions. How many times does each character get to speak? Who ... their word count by the amount of times they speak. To apply these ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  miles in the snow to get away from MIT and plan for our upcoming semester. They often say that "getting there is half the fun" and I would tend to ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2019. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  call an Uber to get to the bus station, and get stuck in traffic. Rush ... miss the bus at this point. It takes 35 minutes to get to South Station, a 3.5 mile drive from campus. I sprint to get on the bus 3 minutes

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  have preparing for quals in grad school -- your knowledge needs to be ... States take 4-7 years, is that coursework is required to get American ... 'm senior now heading off to math grad school next fall). I really appreciate

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  the door and the simple statement "Your alarm has been going off for ... were telling you what camera to go to and whatever. Anyway, the '07 was ... .302 and two 21M.2xx subjects Units: 3-0-9 Add to schedule Lecture: MW3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... cream-you’ve got give me more to work with. Are we eating it plain, or ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• 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 ... first to graduate — I graduated with degrees in biology and brain and ... . After I graduated from MIT, I went to graduate school at Harvard. I did my

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

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  -ly duties: 10. I was doing physics:  During IAP you’re only allowed to take ... experience. I learned how NOT to epoxy my hair by accident, how to deal with ... ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  particularly disturbed by yesterday's events to contact the many individuals and ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007