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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During ... , despite being a premed, I knew very little about the current US healthcare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  ;-- not a real word] before CPW, but the best that we can do is ensure you ... Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... in session, but MIT is not?" This is a good question. It's certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus ... .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  do when on a finite-length trip. We found (after much difficulty) the ... -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  being a person has felt like–becoming aware of awful shit and doing my ... .” — Barbie   Like a lot of high school students, I spent the majority of ... . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... relationships”. There’s a lot of depth behind both of these contributions, and as ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two weeks have been much like a take-off. The packing. The uneventful sitting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm ... night falls the pink streetlights light the forest from behind, the snow a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  'll do you in a few days. Start with the Sequences if you want to try ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... looked like from MY point of view: This picture really doesn't even do ... ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  ...) "What in the hell am I doing here?" It was a beautifully absurd MIT moment ... was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM, so I only made a couple of phone calls, but I really enjoyed talking to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more ... visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  HTML than I do -- bummer. After that, most of us went to bed. A certain ... (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate ... .") Their wedding took place in Bellevue last Saturday, and was a bittersweet

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

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  IAP as a lesson in what not to do. I overcommitted myself, took on too ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... just scroll a Harvard Great Books class syllabus or something if you want

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  applying for [annotation note="global teaching labs, a MISTI program that ... UROP research ultimately won out. Still, I felt like I needed a break, a change of scenery, so I semi-spontaneously planned a trip to Europe with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with ... getting myself into. The syllabus sounded interesting, and I wanted to do ... art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019