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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  across the Harvard Bridge and bang, we felt a snowflake (the first ... flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... my winter coat and put away my summer clothes; it's always a semi

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the BioMedical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... was to show you a controversial play where a penalty has occured and just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a ... well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... 5.112, the intro chemistry for masochists class that I took as a first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  . In between the airports and time zones is the real story. A Flying ... first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a ... phone came back to life, I had a message from the friend who was going to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  to celebrate a friend's 21st birthday. I returned to my Texas roots with a nice steak. Our waiter didn't ask for her ID, and I was a little ... somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall '04, Wolfe) - There are a lot of requirement-filling "perks" to this class. It's a HASS-D, it's a CI-H, and if you're Course 9, it's required

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  So I guess telling you my name would be a good place to start: Bryan. I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... 's Inauguration last May. In order for you guys to get to know me a little better

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  with a fun academic summer program. Many of the best summer programs ... , Entrepreneurship, and Science (MITE2S), which the website describes as "a rigorous ... , and Caltech -- which the website describes as "a rigorous academic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... just like 6.2050, there’s a big final project that I’m excited about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  intern. Their Explore program is a 12 week internship broken up into two ... software engineering or not and it was a really difficult journey but I ... basically had to do a lot of networking and running around and cold DMing and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  such thought, I am instead going to erect a shrine to it by documenting ... mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on ... ! part 1: getting to class 8:50 AM: My first alarm—a primer alarm, just to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé, to talk about their experiences as a WISE student, host, and admissions ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  these were from home. Now most of them are more recent. Bottom left: A cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I traced with green marker at a kids’ arts and crafts space with my little

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew into Heathrow Airport on a dragon, and then I rode with a group of knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025