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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  -related news, the productivity geek in me decided to try out an entirely new note ... Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  , so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had ... 'd stay up until 2 a.m. in hopes that we'd get to see a sliver of change ... . And then I get up every morning to start the cycle over again. And again

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... still life painted by Jan Brueghel, but forgot to take a picture of it ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  .01[/annotation] [annotation note="you can take the Advanced Standing Exams to get ... international orientation started, I started meeting new people and going to most ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... , convincing new students to join the crew team, leading FPOPs and orientation ... need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... from four to six to a zillion years, depending on how fast you get your ... of arrows on that page, so I'll try to clarify. First you finish your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make the most of the Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in ... completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1 ... pies, piedentified (joke by Irina’s boyfriend Alex). The top row is ... this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  't limited to pizza), spent a night in the New England Aquarium, and finished ... crammed in your tiny room trying to solve the hard problems together and ... this week are waiting for the newest psets to come out, come in your hour

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  — our return expedited by promises to help our floor (Burton One!) run ... IKEA, resolved to finish The Double by the next day. [caption id ... " — tapping into some optimism that each new outing presented the chance to find

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  When I had no motivation to go to Starbucks, I’d get hot chocolate from ... .   Building 12 I would take the elevator across these stairs to get to my UROP ... the walk to Johnson to get tested.     [carousel image1

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a ... values were taught to me, not by [annotation note="okay, there were some ... each day is the same mess of work that needs to get done. As I wrote at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  nervewracking to realize that you're no longer the class brain, and that you can't sleepwalk your way to perfect grades anymore. My first semester at MIT, I ... class, and you have to learn for you, not for the grades. My new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the ... card gives me special Medlink powers, and my quote is "Let me go get my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  to just trying to find time to rest but really not...getting any. This ... get extremley red and I would scratch it to the point where my skin ... briefly, but going to Trident and sitting there for hours surrounded by the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  to this system by an Interstate Compact. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland ... presidential debate bingos and register to vote parties. Well, I've been getting ... ,728.94 And this really ought to concern you. If you're an MIT student voting in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  thought about attempting the swim, let alone getting that close to shore ... Europe (which I WILL DEFINITELY blog about later!), I have to go straight to exam revision (yes, over here people say revision, not review

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012