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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of sounding ... happens for a reason, and while you can debate the validity of that ... . The fact that I don't have to study for exams this weekend Without

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  extremely valuable pieces of information :) 9.52 - Stat for Neuroscience ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... Women's Initiative is to send MIT women to middle schools and high schools

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  lists that send too much mail =p) And some technologically-related issues ... forming for like 3 blocks down a side street. At 6:45, after much scuffling ... though (I surmise some were recruited from other stores just for this event

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and ... goals are entered into weekly drawings for prizes. Summer is just one ... Ate the Whole Thing.” Week 1’s competition was for the Best Team name

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  remaining applications and send in those missing pieces of paperwork, start ... perhaps who you harangued for your recommendations), and let your friends ... throughout the years. For me, that's what made my last semester of high school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship ... of experience, so I repeated the same process for the next two years

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  idea was that??) (Note: to look up the link for 5.60, I had to go to the ... find Chemistry in the C's rather than the F's -- for five, the chemistry ... -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  one activity, however, that we hope you will join us for: MIT Quest ... MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be ... be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  the third floor somewhere on MIT campus, frantically studying for my ... afternoon, when I hunkered down and started studying for my four finals this ... -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should ... sends, you sometimes get surprising answers. As much as they respect brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... completely different to what I studied for. In fact, I seriously felt like I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... ). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  [annotation note="i just googled this and found out i’ve been calling it the WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... year ago because one of the professors saw me working on a project for a ... stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... initiatives (misti) runs global travel experiences for MIT. they’re the primary hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the ... of unsuspecting psetters to distract them for hours. Sometimes we ... sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  relies on resources - time and people - as fuel for information. I’m always ... cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... this very pretty campus. It may not be Google, but we still had a full

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... stuff", but as a cursory Google Scholar search proves, he's been involved

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip ... . I feel like such a nerd for taking a picture of the engine, but it was ... to examine for a long time, and photograph. Hong Kong After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005