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• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  About four years ago, I ended my very last blog post as a student by saying that I hoped and suspected our paths would cross again someday. Well. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  Since I last posted, I got one year older (waaaaay back in October). Also during that time, presumably because I've gotten older and wiser, I ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season ... last summer, and I'm excited about catching up on House and Monk episodes that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a week in europe pictures of munich, vienna, amsterdam

  

  -ending projects just outside my window keep me awake as i attempt to make our 6.033 report seem comprehensible. i look outside and see the same view i've seen ... : it's the mid-semester bubble rearing its ugly head. i want to succumb

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in ... Kansas City, I had a 6.006 (Intro to Algorithms) midterm later that day. Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization problem. There was some quantity I wanted to maximize (say, my happiness, or the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find ... was booked all morning so i scheduled an appointment at 3:15 in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some reason, I assumed that holding a camera and walking around campus would ... -processing software couldn't save me; I spent a couple hours trying to stabilize the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of 2018 applicants, for sharing your experiences with us. I have shared your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I ... past few months or so, or at least the past three weeks), I disengage my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is ... us stalkers (Facebook)... just kidding. But sometimes! When I stumble

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  I first thought of giving this blog the fitting title of “My First ... blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am ... this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  application, which I barely remember anymore - occurred via a link in the blog comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so panicked about receiving my admissions decision that I may or may not have

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long-overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  Term's over. Almost. I've always felt that term wasn't truly over until all of my grades were in, and I'm still waiting for two of them (out of five). But I'm less nervous about my grades this term than I have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006