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• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  wasn't enough, which is, unfortunately, a common occurrence at MIT. i'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab ... i had an essay i'd barely started that was due at 5pm. my friend casey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early ... works Lyft is way cheaper than Uber late at night boba with 25% sugar ... 't actually very fun at all cloud's up air in super smash ultimate is really

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  uncle: "Joonho, how was summer vacation?" "It was fun, I did research at ... at the train station. The university student majoring in Korean that was working part-time at the ryokan we stayed in. The old lady at the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  express to the world what being a student at MIT is like. You should ... write about things you do at MIT. Admissions officers can write about ... life at MIT is a perspective only you can provide, so you should feel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy ... cat crazy. Okay, I've always been cat crazy. I Work at an Awesome Place I have a job! At Formlabs! I play with liquid photopolymers for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... happen at Harvard. The only Harvard class I've ever been interested in ... early last fall and found the one that really jumped out at us- "Heat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Events

  #WeAreMIT SMASH helped jumpstart an intense conversation between students and administration

  

  SMASH stands for Students At MIT Allied for Student Health. I am on ... . MedLinks is the student group at MIT that "links" or provides a midpoint ... resources at MIT Medical and on campus to get the help students may need

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

   elevator pitch. (At some point, I'll probably make an entire post about what a ... score a great summer internship - just not at the career fair, which just goes to show that even if the companies at the career fair aren't looking

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  University presidents are the black suit-wearing overseers who sit at the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by ... usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about ... about the Division of Student Life (DSL) at MIT? Essentially DSL promotes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their ... heard next. "We're now receiving reports of an explosion at the Pentagon ... . An image of walking through the Pentagon smiling up at my dad as we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and ... 's what you need to do: (Deep breath again) At 6:28, or anytime thereafter, you can check your decision at: decisions.mit.edu Log in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month-long externship at a healthcare consulting firm about an hour outside Boston. The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online at Umeqo. I went with my friend and old roommate Anji after tucking in our salmonella... and we were immediately greeted at the door by Bar

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring ... to experience things that we thought we only saw in movies. At 5 Wits

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  shower at least twice a month. ...but like most stereotypes, it also ... initial request for a spot at the dinner got turned down.  At the last ... meal there was a lady at the front who gave us tips on proper table

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... something at the Merck cafeteria (the latter happens way too often, sigh - one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last ... Finding Nemo, and (2) started reading Hunger Games. At some point, I fell ... rest of the book series. I glanced briefly at homework but only to tell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  longer -- if we don't have it at that point, you'll get an email ... sent to us. But at this point, we're only reading complete ... applications have been read. So don't worry. At this time, do not send a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  /engineering ingenuity at MIT. Basically, RUNE solicits art and literature submissions from ... inclusion in a glossy magazine published annually at the end of the spring ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011