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• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Harvard, we scurried out the sliding doors in a frenzy. We made it to the ... doing a few dishes we went to sleep in the staff room: a room just wide ... ," she said. Startled, I tried to picture her in a doctor's office

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  -internship, starting/continuing an UROP, learning to snowboard, making pottery, or (gasp ... makes! & Finally, a search for “IAP” on the blogs homepage will pull ... where near comfortable on ice. Here’s a chance to change that. You might

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... up in the Z Center. Here's a throwback to last year's career fair ... don't think I'll ever come close to grabbing more than 33 t-shirts in a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... by her room to say hi so we could finally meet in real life. We haven ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about ... give them a call to chat a bit about things... As for the food, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... , whenever I tell someone that I'm a physics major, I feel the need to somehow

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  choice to make, which I’ll talk about a little bit later. On campus, I got ... introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello ... be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... balconies, and a hammock. 3. A RADIAL TIRESWING (come by during CPW and ... making a dodecahedral constellation projector from scratch. It’s a modular

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... activities. We try to make our Rush activities things that happen even when ... when we have a suitable (usually foam) target. We had to get rid of last

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... shining, and a score to settle, it is the perfect day for soccer. We start ... Vincent. With a nice 3-1 win, we smoothly advance to the next round.  Round

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a student ... for this. It's a pretty good gig to be honest. Your application will be read by a small committee including some admissions officers who work on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... 'easter to liven up a winter weekend. Questions: 1. Jay asked, "Hey Mollie, can undergrads start UROPs by themselves, i.e. Plan a project, approach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  ; [making a mental note to add that to my notes app] … “Yeah, I guess you ... line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... ’t always meant to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  , and I strongly encourage you to go through it if you are considering a ... must complete a minor in order to go to medical school -- these links are just to provide a more comprehensive look at what MIT has to offer. Here

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... entirely by undergrads). At any school, teaching is a difficult profession

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... At CES, my friends and I went to some free concerts by Lil Jon, Afrojack, and Alesso. A video posted by Erick Pinos (@erickpinos) on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  question: "To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf! It's a really really really ... was anything to judge by, you might leave a little bewildered. Me: Ben ... Let’s take a tour. Begin by walking down Dorm Row, which takes you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... which I decided to become an astronomer insteaad of a neurologist. I ... , Raphael was struck by the idea that we didn't have to wait until morning to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  firehose firehose is an event hosted by esp (educational studies program), a ... situations where a few people end up having to do everyone else's tasks). there ... , to the point where i began making lists of songs to learn, and then i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  just rush by K: it’s a visual romanticization of life C: It makes sense ... strokes can make massive changes to a picture. conclusion I learned a lot of ... the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023